tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44528736940847014222024-03-19T15:40:42.846-04:00The Conservative PraetorianSpreading Common Sense Conservatism for the Patriotic Citizen. Exposing the Hypocrisy of the Liberal Left.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452873694084701422.post-29292678062789069102020-11-19T20:15:00.002-05:002020-11-19T20:33:39.647-05:00The President's Warriors<p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">My Opinion 2.0</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I</span><span style="font-size: medium;">t has been over 8 years since I last posted in my blog, <b>The Conservative Praetorian</b>. After Obama was elected for a second term, I lost interest in posting in any political forum. Needless to say, I am very political. Today, I watched Mayor Giuliani, Sydney Powell and Jenna Ellis speak about the orchestrated </span><span style="font-size: medium;">voter fraud and election violations perpetrated by the left. They laid out the complex complaints, in which, liberals have attempted to steal the 2020 election from the American people.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T-lZJ6b31BM" width="320" youtube-src-id="T-lZJ6b31BM"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I must admit, the emotions I was feeling were all over the place. I was extremely mad, angered, anxious and sad. How can something like this happen in the United Sates of America? I understand and somewhat expect this to happen in third world countries. There have been many complaints about Dominion voting machines in the past and why do we use them. Politicians have been registering complaints about Dominion voting machines issues cancelling votes and switching votes. People have sworn out affidavits pertaining to these voting machines were intentionally invented to steal and alter elections. Yes, steal elections. They have been used in Venezuela and Argentina. I read today that Dominion has taken down their social media pages and have moved their offices. Why would they do that? Because they have been exposed. I believe when this hits, people will go to prison. Did Biden stay in his basement because he knew he had this in the bag? Trump had twenty to fifty thousand supporters at his rallies and Biden had 364 people beeping their horns. </span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04XjoC5V8zJwH-95MYSaT_I1RKCpl_WzLfBwp4QwP_SOwYHOVIgpdayjFpqmT8PwXB8EYSkfC0ZLJSs5tk1UmVhBgc6yF1CTqxNTxsfRWcurQNhSOkmPDrStsRwqBnmOltAW7vLZRjDMe/s232/car+horn.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04XjoC5V8zJwH-95MYSaT_I1RKCpl_WzLfBwp4QwP_SOwYHOVIgpdayjFpqmT8PwXB8EYSkfC0ZLJSs5tk1UmVhBgc6yF1CTqxNTxsfRWcurQNhSOkmPDrStsRwqBnmOltAW7vLZRjDMe/s0/car+horn.jpeg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My point is, how can you have thirty thousand plus people at every Trump rally, the other side isn't really campaigning, Trump is winning by six hundred thousand votes and then, precincts in swing states shut down for the night and</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> the next day, magically, Biden is ahead by sixty thousand votes. Eureka!! Totally amazing! Whistleblowers have stated election employees bringing up carts of ballots from the basement in the middle of the night. Also, filling out ballots as other poll workers counted ballots. others have signed affidavits stating Trump (republican) ballots were thrown away in the trash. Not one election official certified these mysterious ballots. Thousands of ballots colored in the circles so perfectly that officials said it looked like it was filled out on a printer. Were they fraudulent, illegal or late? If so, Shouldn't we execute due diligence on one of the most important civic duties an American citizen can perform? What are they afraid of? This is going to bust out as the largest conspiracy ever committed against the United States of America. Treason? Conspiracy? The lame stream media (alphabet media) hasn't taken any of this serious, because they are knee deep and totally invested in Biden. Imagine if the tables were turned around, and Trump was declared President-Elect by the the conservative media and with this many questions concerning the integrity of the election. It would be twenty four hour coverage. We all know Trump. He will never give up on us and his beloved country. He has a great legal team. If this doesn't work out for our President, it will be a paramount dis-service to every American, especially the seventy million plus citizens who voted for President Trump. <i><b>We The People will persevere...</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJFUxBE_uQqO4-2fGtSyebRJ6Qa5cbCTR6Vk5u73qYwH2ZuKjlfBKNT4V7YDEwM_fBQVG0ssoCxEN6dhsAizc7_g8YjAKuyufid4cRUzEl7f481TpKhyphenhyphenBM_jq-BZ-VehPnNb7uwv6kna0/s1297/President-Trump-Official-Portrait-1024x1297+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1297" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJFUxBE_uQqO4-2fGtSyebRJ6Qa5cbCTR6Vk5u73qYwH2ZuKjlfBKNT4V7YDEwM_fBQVG0ssoCxEN6dhsAizc7_g8YjAKuyufid4cRUzEl7f481TpKhyphenhyphenBM_jq-BZ-VehPnNb7uwv6kna0/s320/President-Trump-Official-Portrait-1024x1297+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Donald J. Trump </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My President</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452873694084701422.post-35460877951797766682012-11-01T14:43:00.000-04:002012-11-01T14:43:01.747-04:00The Benghazi Bomb Shell <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night, I watched Greta on Fox News with guest, Catherine Herridge. Wow! What a development! One month prior to the September 11th terrorist attack on our Consulate which left four Americans dead, our Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, destroyed and empowered the terrorist groups. Senators, Congressmen and right leaning journalists have called for information pertinent to this attack, cover up and media cover up. Fox's Catherine Herridge, a true and professional journalist, broke this story yesterday, while there were cricket sounds from the main stream media. The cables exclaimed that the there were 10 Al Queda groups in Benghazi and the Consulate could not withstand a coordinated terrorists attack. These incriminating communications went up to the Secretary of State's office. If Hillary Clinton made this decision to deny rescue or if it went to Obama and he denied 3 requests for rescue of the Ambassador and other Consulate personnel, America has the right to know. The families of the deceased deserve to know. With the biggest and most important election in five days, Obama and his sycophants think they can run the clock out until after the election. The truth will set you free... Or lose an election. The dishonesty and deception of this administration will go down in infamous history. We need to know the truth? In my humbled opinion, this scandal is much worse than Watergate. Watergate didn't get anyone killed. If Clinton had any self respect or dignity, she would resign. However, it appears none of the Obama administration never sees the need to resign, they are above the law and resignation. My real regret is for the families. Ms. Smith, Sean's Mother and Mr. Woods, Tyrone Woods Father, along with the other family members, deserve so much gratitude, appreciation and honor. What they got were lies, excuses and the Potomac two-step. These men were American heroes, deliberately disobeying orders knowing that they probably wouldn't survive. But they did it anyway. Is this what the Obama foreign policy has become? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Americans should take this tragedy into consideration when they go to vote next Tuesday. Along with Fast & Furious, in which a US Border Patrolmen was murdered and hundreds of Mexicans. There has been so many scandals in this administration, it is hard to remember them all. The biggest scandal is the anemic economy, unemployment above 8% for 43 consecutive months (23 million Americans), 3 credit downgrades, 47 million Americans on food stamps and so on. Obama said he would fix it, a huge opportunity.Unfortunately for us, he has made it much worse with his socialistic ideology. America deserves better. America needs real change. I believe the Romney/Ryan presidency will be exactly what our country needs at this time. Next Tuesday, get out there and vote. Take your neighbors, family and friends to the polling stations. It is our most important civic duty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a “coordinated attack,” according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox News.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked “SECRET” said that the State Department’s senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“RSO (Regional Security Officer) expressed concerns with the ability to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support, and the overall size of the compound,” the cable said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to a review of the cable addressed to the Office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Emergency Action Committee was also briefed "on the location of approximately ten Islamist militias and AQ training camps within Benghazi … these groups ran the spectrum from Islamist militias, such as the QRF Brigade and Ansar al-Sharia, to ‘Takfirist thugs.’” Each U.S. mission has a so-called Emergency Action Committee that is responsible for security measures and emergency planning.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The details in the cable seemed to foreshadow the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. compound, which was a coordinated, commando-style assault using direct and indirect fire. Al Qaeda in North Africa and Ansar al-Sharia, both mentioned in the cable, have since been implicated in the consulate attack.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to describing the security situation in Benghazi as “trending negatively,” the cable said explicitly that the mission would ask for more help. “In light of the uncertain security environment, US Mission Benghazi will submit specific requests to US Embassy Tripoli for additional physical security upgrades and staffing needs by separate cover.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for specific threats against the U.S., the cable warned the intelligence was not clear on the issue, cautioning that the militias in Benghazi were not concerned with any significant retaliation from the Libyan government, which had apparently lost control in Benghazi. A briefer explained that they “did not have information suggesting that these entities were targeting Americans but did caveat that (there was not) a complete picture of their intentions yet. RSO (Regional Security Officer) noted that the Benghazi militias have become more brazen in their actions and have little fear of reprisal from the (government of Libya.)”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the administration’s public statements have suggested that the attack came without warning, the Aug. 16 cable seems to undercut those claims. It was a direct warning to the State Department that the Benghazi consulate was vulnerable to attack, that it could not be defended and that the presence of anti-U.S. militias and Al Qaeda was well-known to the U.S. intelligence community.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a three-page cable on Sept 11, the day Stevens and the three other Americans were killed, Stevens wrote about “growing problems with security” in Benghazi and “growing frustration” with the security forces and Libyan police. The ambassador saw both as “too weak to keep the country secure.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fox News asked the State Department to respond to a series of questions about the Aug. 16 cable, including who was specifically charged with reviewing it and whether action was taken by Washington or Tripoli. Fox News also asked, given the specific warnings and the detailed intelligence laid out in the cable, whether the State Department considered extra measures for the consulate in light of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks – and if no action was taken, who made that call.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The State Department press office declined to answer specific questions, citing the classified nature of the cable.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"An independent board is conducting a thorough review of the assault on our post in Benghazi," Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said in written statement. "Once we have the board's comprehensive account of what happened, findings and recommendations, we can fully address these matters."</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear Undecided Voter:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given that you’re an undecided voter, you probably don’t believe those who keep saying that this is “the most important election of our lifetime.” I’m sure that sounds like political hyperbole to you. It isn’t. This is indeed the most important election of our lifetime, and I say that with confidence without even knowing how old you are. In a nutshell: Re-electing President Obama will lock us into a course that will lead us to fiscal collapse, place unimaginable burdens on our children and destroy the ability of government to protect our interests around the world and the most vulnerable here at home. Before you dismiss that as mere partisanship, please take a few moments to read my explanation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our debt is simply unsustainable, and the consequences will eventually devastate us — perhaps sooner rather than later. In September, the federal government’s debt passed the <a class="external" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57505995-503544/as-national-debt-passes-16-trillion-gop-blasts-obamas-policies-/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #832921; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">$16 trillion</a> mark for the first time in history. Our debt now exceeds <a class="external" href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/31/scariest-thing-about-this-halloween/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #832921; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the total value of everything our economy produces in an entire year</a>. We now spend over<a class="external" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703883504576186163767307644.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #832921; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">$200 billion</a> each year just to pay interest on our federal debt. A good chunk of that <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/undecideds-please-read-this-before-voting/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #832921; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: inherit; font-variant: normal; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 204, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">money</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 14px; height: auto !important; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> goes overseas to China and other lenders. That’s money we can’t use to help the poor, help seniors, educate kids, protect our safety or do anything else that we may want our government to do. The path we’re on will cause our annual interest payments to soar to almost <a class="external" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703883504576186163767307644.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #832921; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">$1 trillion</a> in a decade. By that time, we’d be wasting <a class="external" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703883504576186163767307644.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #832921; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">almost 20 percent more</a> in <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/undecideds-please-read-this-before-voting/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As bad as that sounds, it’s actually much worse: The federal government’s “unfunded liabilities” — the amounts it’s legally on the hook to pay under Social <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/undecideds-please-read-this-before-voting/#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #832921; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Security</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook2icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; bottom: auto; 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Indeed, some respected economists have estimated that our unfunded liabilities actually <a class="external" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/the_government_is_bankrupt_and_will_destroy_the_economy.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #832921; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">exceed $200 trillion</a>. Whichever estimate is correct, one thing is certain: Our children will face the almost impossible task of paying the gargantuan bills that we’re running up so that we can spend on ourselves. That is beyond immoral.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to see where we’re headed, look at the disaster unfolding in Greece. For years, Greece kept borrowing so the government could indulge its people with all sorts of extravagant benefits. Greece kept living beyond its means without thinking about the future. The future has now arrived, and it isn’t pretty. The Greeks have so messed up their <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/undecideds-please-read-this-before-voting/#" id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #832921; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook3p" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: inherit; font-variant: normal; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook3w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 204, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">finances</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook3icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 14px; height: auto !important; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> that other countries are no longer willing to lend them money. They now have to dismantle their welfare state in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. And rather than accept the consequences of their irresponsible behavior like adults, Greeks are rioting in the streets in a hopeless effort to preserve their welfare state. The once-proud people of Greece have had their spirit, strength and dignity sapped by their dependence on that welfare state. And the government, which had tried to be all things to all people, can no longer afford even to protect the most vulnerable in that society.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here in America, we’re dangerously close to an important tipping point: almost half of Americans pay no income taxes. That is not to in any way demean those people — many have earned that right with their service to our country, their payments into the system or for other reasons. But value judgments aside, what will be the practical effect of having the people who don’t pay income tax being able to outvote the people who do? Will the voting majority not be tempted to vote themselves more and more benefits at the expense of others who are paying the bills?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> </span></span></div>
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, file photo, a gasoline pump shows a customer has spent $40.00 for eight gallons of gasoline at a Shell station in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)</div>
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<b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(CNSNews.com) </b>– Energy policy concerns win hands down over "green" concerns in a ranking of election issues that Americans are concerned about, according to new<a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0e5ad4; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">poll results</a> from Harris Interactive.</div>
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According to the poll, 77 percent of Americans said energy is “very important” or “important” when it comes to voting for a political candidate.</div>
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Only 67 percent said environmental issues predominate.</div>
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The online pollster asked 2,562 adults: “How important is a presidential candidate's policy in each of the following areas to making your decision on who to vote for?”</div>
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Economic/budget concerns (88 percent), taxes (86 percent), jobs (86 percent) and health care (85 percent) led the list of concerns, with energy policy – including the price of gasoline -- coming in at sixth place.</div>
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Environmental concerns ranked at the bottom in 10th place.</div>
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The poll does not say that Americans are not concerned about the environment, but merely that the group of those who say the environment is the top issue driving their vote is much smaller than the group concerned about the availability and costs of energy, according to Harris.</div>
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The older the segment of population, the more that Americans seem concerned about energy, and the wider the gap between concern about energy and the environment.</div>
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Among those age 67 and older, 90 percent are concerned most about energy, 74 percent about the environment.</div>
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Results in other segments:</div>
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Energy is an important subject for Americans because it is central to many other policies, especially economic, jobs and environmental policies, according to Harris Interactive Vice President Sarah Simmons.</div>
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“In addition, energy pricing has a significant impact on families – whether it is in the prices they pay at the pump OR in the impact energy prices have on the ability of large and small businesses to increase the workforce. This unique role that energy plays in our nation's economic health and our way of life will continue to keep the issues on the front burner."</div>
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The online survey took place between Sept. 17-24.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always, I obediently watch the last of the Presidential debates. If you fell off a turnip truck and watched the debate, you would have thought Mitt Romney was the President and Barack Obama was the challenger. Obama came out insulting, condescending, and very aggressive. Romney came out firm, focused and Presidential. As we view the most current polls, Romney is up and holding on to the momentum that manifested after the first Presidential debate. Obama seemed desperate and Romney did not fall into the traps Obama tried to set for him. In my opinion, that was incredibly smart, most candidates might not have been able to keep out of a good argument. Libya is a national disaster, perpetuated by a Obama administration cover-up that Darrell Issa and Mike Rodgers of the Congressional oversight committee, will persue this tragedy until they get satisfaction. So, in essence, Romney did not have to spotlight Libya. I realize many conservative Americans wanted Romney to stomp on Obama pertaining to Benghazi, Libya. However, Romney is smarter than that, he knows his dedicated base will vote for him. He was speaking to the undecideds, independents and female base. Obama wanted to paint Romney as a war monger, Romney isn't a war monger, nor does he want to send Americans into harms' way. Ironically, the President who received a Nobel Peace Prize, ramped up the two wars he inherited, bombed Libya and lobbed drones into Pakistan and Yemen. I believe Obama personally doesn't like Romney. Romney is everything Obama is not. Romney is successful, self made, professional and is the ideal spiritual man. Obama is a product of socialistic mentoring and victimization. He has a chip on his shoulder with America. His Father and Grandfather were strong opponents of Colonialism. Obama blames the USA for the troubles of the world. If you looked at Obama when Romney was speaking last night, Obama was executing the Darth Vader death stare. Obama interrupted Romney many, many times. Obama said Romney would have let Detroit auto makers die and we would be purchasing Chinese cars. Please read the re posted Op-Ed by Mitt Romney in the New York Times on November 18,2008 to re-butt what Obama said last night. Did Obama know the bankruptcy laws available to Detroit? That would have the US taxpayers billions of dollars that we will never be paid back. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the Sequestration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> issue, Obama said it was Congress that implemented this bill. However, President Obama signed the bill into law! Wouldn't we consider that a bold faced lie? He didn't have to sign it. The comments made by President Obama about the Navy were insulting and condescending. This will definitely hurt Obama with the remaining undecided voters, independents and Women. My Wife said she was offended the way Obama acted. Today, Gallup reported Romney was up by 5 points. Last night, Romney reassured the citizens of America that he is a viable and capable alternative to Obama. The economy is and will be the paramount topic and talking points for the next two weeks leading up to election day. Obama will be hard pressed to defend his economic record:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23 million unemployed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">47 million of food stamps</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over 8% unemployment for 43 months</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U6 unemployment at 14.7% (BLS)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 Credit downgrades</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GDP at 1.3%</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Middle East in turmoil</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trade deficit with China: January 2012-August 2012 - $203,121.5 billion</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(Last night, Obama said that he had equalized the trade with China)</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Republicans and Conservatives are invigorated and enthusiastic this election, because many of us believe this is the most important election of our lifetime. On November 6th, get out there and vote. If possible, help your neighbor and friends get to the polling station to vote. It is one of our most important civic duties. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Romney/Ryan 2012!!!!</span></span><br />
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Times Topics: <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_crisis/auto_industry/index.html" style="color: #00325b; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Automotive Industry Crisis</a> | <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/mitt_romney/index.html" style="color: #00325b; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Mitt Romney</a></h6>
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IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.</div>
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Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.</div>
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I love cars, American cars. I was born in Detroit, the son of an auto chief executive. In 1954, my dad, George Romney, was tapped to run American Motors when its president suddenly died. The company itself was on life support — banks were threatening to deal it a death blow. The stock collapsed. I watched Dad work to turn the company around — and years later at business school, they were still talking about it. From the lessons of that turnaround, and from my own experiences, I have several prescriptions for Detroit’s automakers.</div>
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First, their huge disadvantage in costs relative to foreign brands must be eliminated. That means new labor agreements to align pay and benefits to match those of workers at competitors like BMW, Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Furthermore, retiree benefits must be reduced so that the total burden per auto for domestic makers is not higher than that of foreign producers.</div>
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That extra burden is estimated to be more than $2,000 per car. Think what that means: Ford, for example, needs to cut $2,000 worth of features and quality out of its Taurus to compete with Toyota’s Avalon. Of course the Avalon feels like a better product — it has $2,000 more put into it. Considering this disadvantage, Detroit has done a remarkable job of designing and engineering its cars. But if this cost penalty persists, any bailout will only delay the inevitable.</div>
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Second, management as is must go. New faces should be recruited from unrelated industries — from companies widely respected for excellence in marketing, innovation, creativity and labor relations.</div>
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The new management must work with labor leaders to see that the enmity between labor and management comes to an end. This division is a holdover from the early years of the last century, when unions brought workers job security and better wages and benefits. But as Walter Reuther, the former head of the United Automobile Workers, said to my father, “Getting more and more pay for less and less work is a dead-end street.”</div>
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You don’t have to look far for industries with unions that went down that road. Companies in the 21st century cannot perpetuate the destructive labor relations of the 20th. This will mean a new direction for the U.A.W., profit sharing or stock grants to all employees and a change in Big Three management culture.</div>
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The need for collaboration will mean accepting sanity in salaries and perks. At American Motors, my dad cut his pay and that of his executive team, he bought stock in the company, and he went out to factories to talk to workers directly. Get rid of the planes, the executive dining rooms — all the symbols that breed resentment among the hundreds of thousands who will also be sacrificing to keep the companies afloat.</div>
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Investments must be made for the future. No more focus on quarterly earnings or the kind of short-term stock appreciation that means quick riches for executives with options. Manage with an eye on cash flow, balance sheets and long-term appreciation. Invest in truly competitive products and innovative technologies — especially fuel-saving designs — that may not arrive for years. Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.</div>
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Just as important to the future of American carmakers is the sales force. When sales are down, you don’t want to lose the only people who can get them to grow. So don’t fire the best dealers, and don’t crush them with new financial or performance demands they can’t meet.</div>
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It is not wrong to ask for government help, but the automakers should come up with a win-win proposition. I believe the federal government should invest substantially more in basic research — on new energy sources, fuel-economy technology, materials science and the like — that will ultimately benefit the automotive industry, along with many others. I believe Washington should raise energy research spending to $20 billion a year, from the $4 billion that is spent today. The research could be done at universities, at research labs and even through public-private collaboration. The federal government should also rectify the imbedded tax penalties that favor foreign carmakers.</div>
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But don’t ask Washington to give shareholders and bondholders a free pass — they bet on management and they lost.</div>
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The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.</div>
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In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26 days until the biggest election in our life times. Today, October 10, 2012, the investigation continues on the Libya consulate terrorist attack. In a nutshell, State department officials were grilled by a Congressional panel. The officials seemed to be a bit outmatched, timid and confused by the questioning. The point I find the most disturbing is that the Obama administration and related departments attempted to deceive the American people and the world with a ridiculous story that the terrorist attack was perpetuated by a stupid, childish and anti-Islam video. Everyone I spoke with said it was a terrorist attack. Jay "Baghdad Bob" Carney (Obama's press stooge) said under the circumstances, this was an anti Islam/slander video protest. Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, appeared on five Sunday morning talk shows and proclaimed the misleading and untrue narrative about the anti-Islam video. The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton also made the same claims. Now, her legacy and reputation could be tarnished, if not ruined. On the David Letterman show, Obama kept up the same lies knowing that it was terrorist attack. Why? Because he desperately wants a second term. Remember, Obama is a narcissist who would step on anyone and throw everyone under the bus. Think about Ambassador Stevens and the three brave Americans who died in that attack. I realize they are just "bumps in the road," however, to most Americans, they are heroes that were neglected and betrayed by our government. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I said in the beginning, 26 days, 26 days... the Obama administration is in panic mode because Romney has pulled ahead of the anointed one. Even in swing states and with independents and women. Remember women, "Vote like your body parts depend on it." I believe the women will vote with their most important body part, their brains. That was a huge blunder by the Obamatuer campaign. Talk about insulting to women? OMG! Can you imagine if the Romney administration did that? It would be on the front page, above the fold for 3 days, minimum. Forget about the main stream media, they are complicit in the cover-up(s). Yes, there are more than one cover-up. Lets not forget about Fast and Furious where an Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexicans died because of these illegal weapons supplied to drug cartels by the American government. And now, BenghaziGate. I am not making light of this tragedy, However, the inexperience, negligence, conspiracy, outright deception and lying to the American people is despicable. I hope this seriously hampers the re-election for Obama. He doesn't deserve a second term. He has totally failed as President. Tomorrow night, Paul Ryan will destroy Joe Biden in the Vice Presidential debate. I hope this will propel Romney/Ryan even higher in the polls. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>I pray for the families of Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods. They will be remembered by patriotic Americans. Rest in Peace and thank you. </b></i></span><br />
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An Incriminating Timeline: Obama Administration and Libya </h1>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">The latest incriminating information on the U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya indicates that the State Department turned down a request for additional security from concerned U.S. embassy staff.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New evidence shows there were security threats in Libya in the months prior to the deadly September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Despite these threats, the State Department left its personnel there to fend for themselves.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when the terrorist attack did take place, the Obama Administration peddled the ridiculous story that an offensive, amateurish, anti-Islam YouTube video was to blame in order to avoid characterizing the murders of four Americans as terrorism.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On October 2, a <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10.2.12-Issa-Chaffetz-to-Clinton.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">letter</a> was sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R–CA) and Jason Chaffetz (R–UT), Chairman of the National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations Subcommittee. The letter detailed 13 known security threats against U.S. facilities in Libya in the six months prior to September 11.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On October 10, the committee will hold a hearing on events in Libya and seek answers from the State Department. Also on October 10, The Heritage Foundation will host a public panel discussion on the events in Libya titled, “<a href="http://www.heritage.org/events/2012/10/benghazi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Intelligence and Security Failure: Attacks in Benghazi and Across the Middle East Reveal Ongoing Threat of Terrorism</a>.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To help our readers follow the path to tragedy on September 11 and its aftermath, below is a chronology of key events:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 6: IED thrown over the fence of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 11: Gun battle erupts between armed groups two-and-a-half miles from the U.S. Consulate, including rocket-propelled grenades.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 27: Two South African contractors are kidnapped by armed men, released unharmed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 1: Deputy Commander of U.S. Embassy Tripoli’s Local Guard Force is carjacked, beaten, and detained by armed youth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 1: British Embassy in Tripoli is attacked by a violent mob and set on fire. Other NATO embassies attacked as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 3: The State Department <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/email-shows-state-department-rejecting-request-of-security-team-at-us-embassy-in-libya/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">declines a request</a> from personnel concerned about security at the U.S. Embassy in Libya for a DC-3 plane to take them around the country.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 22: Two rocket-propelled grenades are fired at the Benghazi office of the International Committee of the Red Cross, less than 1 mile from the U.S. Consulate.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June 6: A large IED destroys part of the security perimeter of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Creates hole “big enough for 40 men to go through.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June 10: A car carrying the British ambassador is attacked in Tripoli. Two bodyguards injured.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Late June: The building of the International Red Cross attacked again and closed down, leaving the U.S. flag as the only international one still flying in Benghazi, an obvious target.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">August 6: Armed assailants carjack a vehicle with diplomatic plates operated by U.S. personnel.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 8: A local security officer in Benghazi <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/world/meast/libya-diplomats-warning/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">warns American officials</a> about deteriorating security.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 11: Protesters <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/cairo-libya-attacks-timeline/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">attack the U.S. Cairo embassy</a>. U.S. Embassy releases statement and tweets sympathizing with Muslim protesters/attackers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 12: Secretary Clinton and President Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/cairo-libya-attacks-timeline/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">issue statements</a> condemning both the video and the attacks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 12: U.S. intelligence agencies have enough evidence to conclude a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/26/u-s-officials-knew-libya-attacks-were-work-of-al-qaeda-affiliates.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">terrorist attack</a>was involved.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 13: Press Secretary Jay Carney <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/cairo-libya-attacks-timeline/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">condemns video and violence</a> at a news conference.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 14: Carney <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/state-department-denies-claim-it-had-advance-knowledge-of-u-s-embassy-attacks/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">denies</a> Administration had “actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 14: The bodies of slain Americans return to Andrews Air Force Base. President Obama again <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-honoring-return-dead-libya-vows-justice-190955105.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">blames</a> the YouTube video.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 16: U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appears on Sunday talk shows and says the attacks were <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/cairo-libya-attacks-timeline/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">provoked by the video, exclusively</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 16: Libyan President Mohamed Magarief <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/cairo-libya-attacks-timeline/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">says</a>, “no doubt that this [attack] was preplanned, predetermined.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 17: State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2012/09/197821.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">refuses to call attacks an act of terror</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 19: CNN <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/world/africa/libya-ambassador-journal/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">reports having found Ambassador Stevens’s diary</a>, which indicates concern about security threats in Benghazi.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 19: Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/09/20/counterterrorism-director-acknowledges-that-libya-attack-was-terrorism/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">tells Congress</a>the attack in Libya was “terrorism.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 20: Carney <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-says-self-evident-libya-attack-terrorism-165822863.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">tries to back up</a> Olsen, says it was “self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 20: Obama <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328648/why-wont-obama-call-libya-attacks-terrorism-katrina-trinko" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">refuses to call attack terrorism</a>, citing insufficient information.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 21: Secretary of State Clinton, at meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister, says, “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-what-happened-in-benghazi-was-a-terrorist-attack-us-will-find-those-responsible/2012/09/21/85b848be-0414-11e2-9132-f2750cd65f97_story.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack</a>.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 25: On ABC’s “The View,” Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/from-video-to-terrorist-attack-a-definitive-timeline-of-administration-statements-on-the-libya-attack/2012/09/26/86105782-0826-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_blog.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">says</a>, “we don’t have all of the information yet so we are still gathering.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 25: To the U.N. assembly, Obama <a href="http://globetribune.info/2012/09/25/obama-blames-video-for-unrest-in-un-speech-video/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">blames</a> “A crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 26: Libya’s Magarief on the “Today” show <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/from-video-to-terrorist-attack-a-definitive-timeline-of-administration-statements-on-the-libya-attack/2012/09/26/86105782-0826-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_blog.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">says</a>, “It was a preplanned act of terrorism directed against American citizens.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 26: Published reports <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/26/u-s-officials-knew-libya-attacks-were-work-of-al-qaeda-affiliates.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">show</a> U.S. Intel agencies and the Obama Administration knew within 24 hours that al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist were involved.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 27: <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Innocence of Muslims</em> filmmaker Mark Basseley Youseff (aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula) is <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/sep/30/anti-muslim-film-maker-arrested-jeopardizing-obama/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">arrested and denied bail</a> on the charges of “probation violation.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 28: Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr., <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/spy-chief-defends-obama-administrations-accounts-of-benghazi-attack-cites-shifting-intelligence/2012/09/28/b16cc996-09a3-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">issues a statement backing</a> the Obama Administration’s changing story about the Libyan attack. Says facts are evolving.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October 2: Carney <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/white-house-has-no-comment-on-house-gopers-assertions-that-libyan-mission-requested-security-prior-to-91112-attack/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #123457; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">declines to comment</a> on reported requests from diplomats in Libya for additional security, citing the State Department’s internal investigation.</span></div>
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<em><strong>Editor’s note:</strong> See updates below.</em></div>
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A new undercover video from conservative activist James O‘Keefe’s Project Veritas purports to show a staffer for the grassroots Obama effort Organizing for America helping facilitate voter fraud.</div>
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In the video, an O’Keefe operative tells a woman identified as Stephanie Caballero, regional field director at OFA Houston, that she has a Florida voter registration card and intends to vote both there and in Texas. While Caballero doesn’t explicitly encourage her to vote twice, she doesn’t discourage her from doing so during their laughter-filled conversations.</div>
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“[It] really concerns me that if we don‘t do everything we can we’re not going to win this election,” the videographer tells Caballero after a cut in the video, who according to Project Veritas is a “salaried employee” of the Democratic National Committee.</div>
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“So you mean that — OK, so you have to make sure because after 60 days you can send in your application to vote by mail ballot,” Caballero says. “So I can print that out for you. On Wednesday I’ll print it out and you just have to mail it back in or fax.”</div>
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“Or fax it back in so that I can do — ” the videographer says.</div>
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“So they’ll send you a mail ballot,” Caballero replies.</div>
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There’s another cut in the video, after which the videographer asks, “And so, and there’s no way that they would be able to cross-reference the ballots?”</div>
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“If you voted twice?” Caballero asks. “I don’t know this. That’s not my expertise. I would just do Florida because in Texas it really doesn’t [count].”</div>
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After the video cuts again, the videographer says, “And let me know about that. I mean, I don’t want to do anything wrong. But if no one’s going to know, like…”</div>
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“I’ll definitely look into it. I don’t want you to get in trouble at all,” Caballero says.</div>
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“Yeah I don’t want to get in trouble but like I said, if no one‘s gonna know I don’t have a problem with it,” she says as Caballero starts to laugh.</div>
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“Oh my God this is so funny! It’s cool though,” Caballero says.</div>
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According to Project Veritas, the video then picks up “a few weeks later” when the videographer returns to the Organizing for America office and receives a Florida absentee ballot application.</div>
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“I was gonna see as far as all the registering for Florida, where do I get the forms to do that? Or not registering but voting in Florida for the absentee,” the videographer asks.</div>
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“So what you‘ll have to do is you’re gonna call in to Florida and call,” Caballero says. “Are you gonna do what I think you’re gonna do?”</div>
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“Well I mean if no one’s gonna know,” the videographer says as Caballero laughs and declares, “You’re so hilarious.”</div>
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After a cut in the video, Caballero says, “OK, I’m just going to print this out for you.”</div>
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There’s another cut, then the videographer says, “Yeah, because I have several friends who, who‘ve done that and they said that it’s no problem.”</div>
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After another cut, Caballero seems to be advising the videographer what to do if she gets caught.</div>
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“Come up with, like, if anyone checks say, ‘I don’t know,’” she said as the two laugh.</div>
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“Well just because I mean, it’s, I don’t know — it’s so important, everything we’re doing here is so important,” the videographer says as Caballero agrees.</div>
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She adds, “That there’s absolutely no way, um, if I have an opportunity to make my voice heard, I’m gonna make my vote twice. I’m gonna make it heard twice.”</div>
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After another cut, Caballero retrieves the Florida ballot application for the videographer, who says she’ll figure out how to fill it out.</div>
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The video then switches to scenes of another O’Keefe operative interacting with Obama campaign workers in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. He tells them he intends to vote twice while they simply laugh, suggesting additional footage could be on its way.</div>
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In a statement, O’Keefe said, “[N]o matter how many times we’ve proven the danger [of election fraud], our concerns have been dismissed by the media while efforts to correct the problem at the state level have been actively blocked by the Obama administration. Now we know why.”</div>
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Caballero did not return a request for comment from TheBlaze.</div>
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Project Veritas has not posted the full, unedited footage of its time at the Organizing for America office.</div>
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It should be noted that TheBlaze <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/are-you-gonna-do-what-i-think-youre-gonna-do-latest-okeefe-video-purportedly-shows-dnc-staffer-helping-woman-vote-twice/www.theblaze.com/stories/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d41007; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">has been critical</a> of O‘Keefe’s undercover tactics in the past.</div>
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<strong>Update:</strong> Project Veritas has posted an additional video appearing to show more OFA staffers not discouraging double voting.</div>
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<strong>Update II:</strong> House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) told the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/10/house-judiciary-chairman-obama-should-fire-campaign-staffers-facilitating-voter-fraud/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d41007; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Daily Caller</a> it was “an outrage that Obama campaign staffers appear to be encouraging voters to engage in voter fraud” and called for them to be fired.</div>
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“Contrary to the statements of the Obama campaign staffer, voter fraud is neither ‘cool’ nor ‘hilarious,’” Smith said. “It is a very serious crime that undermines the integrity of our electoral process and threatens the future of our democracy. Obama campaign staffers who encouraged voters to violate the law and cast fraudulent ballots should be fired.”</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately." --Joe Biden, Aug. 22, 2012<br /><br />“Look at what they [Republicans] value, and look at their budget. And look what they're proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules -- unchain Wall Street. They're going to put y'all back in chains." --Joe Biden, speaking to a largely African-American audience in Danville, Va., Aug. 14, 2012<br /><br />"My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!" --Joe Biden, campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, May 16, 2012<br /><br />"I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you." --Joe Biden, citing Theodore Roosevelt's famous quote, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." (April 26, 2012)<br /><br />"This is a big fucking deal!" --Joe Biden, caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010<br /><br />"His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she's- wait- your mom's still- your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul." --Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010<br /><br />"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. … When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway." --Joe Biden, providing handy tips to protect against the swine flu and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-biden1-2009may01,0,604907.story" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">freaking us out</a>, "Today Show" interview, April 30, 2009<br /><br />"An hour late, oh give me a f**king break." –Joe Biden, caught on a live mic speaking to a former Senate colleague after arriving on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C., March 13, 2009 (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rwkb6ArNn4" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XL">Watch video clip</a>)<br /><br />"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed." –Joe Biden, speaking to an aide standing out of view during an interview on CBS' "Early Show," in the midst of encouraging viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending, Feb. 25, 2009<br /><br />"If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong." --Joe Biden, speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus who were gathered in Williamsburg, Va., for their annual retreat, Feb. 6, 2009<br /><br />"Am I doing this again? For the senior staff? My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'." --Joe Biden, mocking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' botched effort to swear in Barack Obama as Biden was set to swear in White House senior staff one day after the Inauguration snafu, Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009<br /><br />"Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." –Joe Biden, mistakenly referring to Justice John Paul Stevens, who swore him in as vice president, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009 (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiQpNWh98XU" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XL">Watch video clip</a>)<br /><br />"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008 (<a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/oh-that-joe-n-6.html" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">Source</a>)<br /><br />"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008 (<a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/joebiden/youtube/biden-fdr-gaffe.htm" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Watch video clip</a>)<br /><br />"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008 (<a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/joebiden/youtube/biden-stand-up.htm" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Watch video clip</a>)<br /><br />"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me." --Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008 (<a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/biden-musings-on-hillary-clinton/" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">Source</a>)<br /><br />"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!" --Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama after being announced as his running mate, Springfield, Ill., Aug. 23, 2008 (<a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobamavideos/youtube/barack-america.htm" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Watch video clip</a>)<br /><br />"A successful dump!" --Joe Biden, explaining his whereabouts (dropping deadwood at the dump) to the reporters outside his home, Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, 2008<br /><br />"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." –Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007 (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2838420" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">Source</a>)<br /><br />"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden, in a private remark to an Indian-American man caught on C-SPAN, June, 2006 (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIT3jUrNTX0" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XL">Watch video clip</a>)<br /><br /><i style="font-style: italic;">~Compiled by <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/mbiopage.htm" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Daniel Kurtzman</a></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night, my Wife and I sat down to watch the Presidential debate. We sat in amazement watching Romney dominate Obama. Is it just me? Or did Obama look like he would rather be anywhere than the debate. Lackluster, unprepared, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">defensive and un-Presidential. On the other hand, Romney showed command of the topics, extremely prepared, confident, compassionate and ready for anything Obama threw at him. The moderator, Jim Lehrer did his best. However, he was outclassed by Romney and Obama. Let's face it, Obama cannot defend a dismal economy, 23 million unemployed, 43 months of unemployment over 8%, 47 million on food stamps, 2 credit downgrades, complete foreign policy failure, divisiveness and smug, narcissistic, arrogant attitude that is not willing to work with the other side. That would a miracle to talk your way out of this debacle. Ironically, all of the main stream media and Obama's minions are spinning this just like I thought they would. I thought they would have to call 911 for the pundits of MSNBC. "Special Ed" Schultz, Chris "thrill up my leg" Matthews, Rachel Maddow and others were beside themselves. CNN, ABC, CBS declared Romney the winner. Romney called Obama a liar without calling him a liar with the 5 Sons statement. Romney rebutted every point Obama made. Obama hardly rebutted Romney. How could he? The facts are the facts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must admit, I have been a little down in respect to the way Romney/Ryan have been running their campaign. After last night, I feel invigorated and ready to fight the good fight for the next 33 days. I happily await the Paul Ryan/Joe Biden Vice Presidential debate. Ryan will eviscerate Biden. Ryan is a numbers man. Biden is a fool. I am popping popcorn and buying Coronas for that debate, not to mention, recording that program so I can watch it when I need a lift and/or laugh. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the Presidential debate, I watched the liberal news programs to see how they spin the debate. Chris Matthews almost cried. The main street media has created a Deity Presidential figure. Obamatuer was never vetted. After Obama was elected, in an interview, Tom Brokaw had the nerve to say that we don't know anything about Obama. Their job is to vet and find out everything about a potential Presidential candidate. They investigated George W. Bush's military experience in the Air National Guard 10 times. They had 24 thousand emails from Sarah Palin. But, they didn't know anything about the anointed one. If you read any of Obama's books, you could decipher a lot about the man and his ideology. I've posted before, Obama is an anti-Colonialist, just like his Father and Grandfather. He blames America for the plight of the rest of the world. His mentors are communists (Frank Marshall Davis), Domestic terrorists (Bill Ayers, Bernadean Dorn), Racists (Reverend <strike>Wrong</strike> Wright) and Father Flagler, anti Semites (Kahlid Rashidi) and last but not least, Criminal Tony Rezko who sold Obama an expensive house in Chicago really cheap. With friends like this, Obama should be serving time. But that is the Chicago way. The next 33 days will be war. The liberals will do anything and everything to tarnish and belittle Romney and Ryan. I assume they will go after his Mormon religion, Bain Capital, Income, he beats puppies and smacks old ladies! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must be steadfast and handle the onslaught of character assassinations. I read there are 42 million Tea Party members ready to vote for Romney. I hope the Ron Paul people will come to their senses and put their support on Romney. Please get involved. I realize we get caught up in our lives, however, we must save our country not so much for us, but for our kids and grand kids. Vote and get 5 neighbors to vote. We can persevere!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Obama racially charged speech 1997:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Biden: You’re darned right Obama and I want to raise a trillion dollars in new taxes</span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/biden-obama-and-biden-want-to-raise-taxes-by-a-t" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">BuzzFeed</a>, reminds of the end of “A Few Good Men,” i.e. a ruinous admission against interest made in a fit of bravado by one of America’s <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81912.html" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">sexiest grandpas</a>. Who ordered the code red on the economy? Obama did, baby. And damned proud of it. See now why Romney’s taken to selling <a href="https://www.mittromney.com/donate/honestjoe" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“Honest Joe” t-shirts</a> in his campaign store?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This comes less than a day after <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/260137-obama-lets-biden-talk-off-script" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Hill</a> published a piece titled, ominously, “Obama lets Biden talk off-script.” If you want to know what that means in practice, <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/10/joe-biden-this-vice-president-stuff-is-tough/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">here you go</a>:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of his interactions, which was particularly priceless, occurred as Mr. Biden stopped at a food counter and poured himself a cup of vegetable beef soup while lamenting that he had to take it to go in order not to be late for the rally.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They’re hard on me, man,” Mr. Biden said to his fellow shoppers. “This vice president stuff is tough.”…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Biden also chatted with a woman named Karen Foley, who told the reporter in attendance he jokingly introduced himself as “Joe Finnegan” because she had an Irish last name. When Ms. Foley responded that she was aware of who Mr. Biden really was, she said he responded with a compliment.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You’re very pretty,” he said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the guy they’re banking on for a debate rebound next week. Against Paul Ryan.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Exit question: Which angle does the GOP take in attacking Obama over this clip? Presumably it’ll be the usual pushback on taxing job creators, which is an especially bad idea when the economy’s still <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/10/01/are-we-already-in-a-recession/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">straining to cope with Obamanomics</a>, but I hope someone gently reminds the middle class that even a trillion dollars in new taxes on the rich won’t get us out from under the debt load of Great Society II. If you want Obama-style spending and entitlements, you — Joe Sixpack — had better be prepared to start kicking in a bunch more. I’m hoping Ryan brings this up next week, but given the fears of Mediscaring down the stretch, he might be under orders to tread lightly.</span></div>
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Berwick, who appeared at a <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Politico</i>“Pro Health Care” luncheon at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, told CNSNews.com that the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is an “amazing and important step” for the country.</div>
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CNSNews.com asked Berwick, a proponent of the government-run National Health Service in England, if the health reform passed in this country aligns with his views.</div>
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“You have said that any health care system that is civilized and humane must redistribute wealth and also that rationing would have to be involved,” CNSNews.com asked. “Do you believe that the Affordable Care Act does those two things?”</div>
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“Well, I never said rationing should be involved, and it shouldn’t be,” the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said. “I’m against rationing. I abhor it. I think we have plenty of resources in American health care to give all the care that people want and need. We just have to configure that care properly.”</div>
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“So, we don’t have to deny people any care at all,” he said. “And the people that say that about my position haven’t asked me that, it’s not true.”</div>
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“With respect to … redistribution, yeah, this is a fact and there’s a relationship between poverty or income and health,” Berwick said.</div>
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“So, if you’re going to have a health care system that actually makes sure that everybody can get health care, there’ll naturally be support to people of low-income because they’re the people with more illness,” he said. “That’s the redistributional quality of it.”</div>
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“It just, it’s not a political position,” he added. “It’s a fact about proper health care.”</div>
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CNSNews.com then asked, “And that’s what the Affordable Care Act, does it do an adequate job of that?”</div>
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Berwick said, “The Affordable Care Act is a great step in America towards making health care a human right in our country where if you’re an American you can get health care, which isn’t true now, lots of people are left out of the system, people have to worry they’re going to lose their insurance if they get sick, or if they have a preexisting condition, they can’t find insurance.”</div>
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“That’s a very important step,” said Berwick.</div>
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CNSNews.com then asked Berwick to clarify his past statement that, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”</div>
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“That’s a mis -- that’s extracted from a longer statement,” he said. “What I was talking about was insurance companies right now decide what benefits you get or not. They say, ‘Well that’s covered, that’s not covered.’ And then they do it in secret.”</div>
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“Nobody’s accountable,” Berwick said. “Nobody says, ‘Well, how did you decide that? How did you decide I can’t have that test?’ That’s rationing.”</div>
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“And I said, look, we have a choice America,” he said. “We can let them do that in secret or we can require them with transparency to tell us what they’re doing. That’s a comment about accountability with these back rooms where decisions are being made about what people will and will not get.”</div>
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Berwick continued: “My own daughter needed a test a number of years ago -- I’m a doctor, a pediatrician -- and the insurance company said, ‘Oh no, we don’t cover that test.’ And I said, ‘You don’t cover that test? She needs it, what are you talking about? Who made that decision?’ And that’s what I was talking about there.”</div>
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“We’re either going to turn the lights on on that or not,” he said. “I think that decision should be accountable and I think that people should get the health care that they want.”</div>
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In an <a href="http://www.biotechnologyhealthcare.com/journal/fulltext/6/2/BH0602035.pdf?CFID=57897841&CFTOKEN=16271343" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0e5ad4; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">interview with <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biotechnology Healthcare</i></a> in 2009, Berwick was asked about critics of the Department of Health and Human Services’s Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) program, which makes recommendations for treatments, who say it will lead to healthcare rationing.<a href="http://www.biotechnologyhealthcare.com/journal/fulltext/6/2/BH0602035.pdf?CFID=57897841&CFTOKEN=16271343" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0e5ad4; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"></a></div>
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“We can make a sensible social decision and say, ‘Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit [new drug or medical intervention] is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds,’” Berwick said. “We make those decisions all the time. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly.”</div>
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In a speech in England celebrating its government-run National Health Service in 2008, <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/medicare-chief-berwick-dodges-whether-obamcare-redistributes-wealth-which-he-had" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0e5ad4; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Berwick said</a>: “Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must -- redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional. Britain, you chose well.”</div>
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Thursday’s event in Washington, D.C. took place one day after the first presidential debate between President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney, of which Berwick said the president “did a great job” defending his health care law.</div>
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“I think he did a great job,” said Berwick. “And I think that the good thing is Obamacare is, it’s an amazing and important new step for America. So, he’s got a lot of opportunity here to explain to Americans why this law is so good for them. It makes care more available to all of us who really need it, and it makes care better.”</div>
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“There’s tremendous amount of Obamacare that’s an investment in making the quality of health care better,” Berwick added. “So, I think he did a fine job.”</div>
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<i>*Daniel Berwick is a major liberal/socialist. He believes in Redistribution and Government healthcare.</i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.hotair.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.cnsnews.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.theblaze.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.dailycaller.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.wnd.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.allahpundit.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elizabeth Harrington</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.realclearpolitics.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.rwbnews.com</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being a staunch conservative and viewing everything all the time concerning news and political news, I find myself thoroughly disgusted with the serial lying and misinformation being leveled by politicians, pundits and Super Pacs. Back in the day, people actually told the truth for the most part. Campaign dueling has been going on since the inception of our great nation. In retrospect, the last three Presidential election cycles has been incredibly insulting to anyone with half a brain. This goes for both sides of the aisle. Romney eviscerated Gringrich in the Republican Presidential candidate race. Some, I thought were totally unfair. We must face the facts, Obama is a ruthless, narcissistic, Chicago corrupt political machine politician, who will say anything and do anything to stay in office. So, do we want another John McCain? Nice and fair? Or do we want a pit bull, who will take the fight to the opponent? I would like to see more of the latter. Mitt Romney is a wonderful man. He has done so much for so many. He gave over 4 million dollars (30%) to charity last year alone. How much did Barry and Biden give? They are only good at spending our money. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mitt Romney wasn't my first choice, yes, I've grown to like and support him. I believe this election will be more about removing Obama more than the Romney/Ryan ticket. I do believe the Romney/Ryan ticket is a formidable one. I think it is very similar to removing Bush, not about Obama. A few post ago, I posted 1001 reasons not to vote for Obama (July 18, 2012). That article re-opened my eyes to how many crooked and anti-American deeds he perpetrated on America and our Constitution. The main stream media has totally sold out to Obama. They used to try to hide it. Now, it is in our faces, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Univision and so on, blatantly back the Obama/Biden ticket. Calm down, I know that is a huge surprise! Reluctantly, many of the democrats, so-called journalists, pundits, business leaders and others have begun to turn on Obama, his narcissism, his hubris and fraudulent manners, outright lying and socialistic policies. And for the icing on the cake, if anything happened to Obama, Biden would become President! Lunch bucket Joe is a complete idiot and an embarrassment to the Office of the Vice President.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Wife and I went to see 2016, Obama's America. It was an eye opener to say the least. I've posted about Obama's anti-Colonialist's tendencies before, but I didn't realize how deeply rooted they were with his Father and Grandfather. Barry's Grandfather paired Barry up with Frank Marshall Davis as a mentor. A communist/activist who would have been arrested by the FBI as a threat, if we would have gone to war with Russia. Saul Alinsky, Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers and Bernadean Dorn (American terrorists) are the colleagues Obama cares to associate with. This is part, defines the man that has attempted to fundamentally change America. If you love this country, why would you try to fundamentally change it? Obama wants to diminish the United States to the status of just another country. Not a super power, we must pay for our wealth and reimburse the rest of the world for his belief, that America got rich by raping the resources of other countries. If Obama is re-elected, America will seize to exist. He said in 1998, along with his redistribution remarks, that welfare recipients are a strong and viable coalition. (Paraphrased) Pathetic! The media protects Obama and his gaffes daily. One of his latest gaffes concerning the turmoil in the Middle East was as Obama called it, "A bump in the road." I doubt Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other three brave men who died in the Benghazi terrorist attack would consider it that a disgraceful remark. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In summation, because I could go on for days, Obama, his administration and policies have been a dismal failure. Economic, foreign, social and monetary policies have failed because of his ideology. If this man gets four more years, he will do whatever he wants, since he will not have to answer to the American people again. Please talk with five friends and make sure they get out to vote. Tell them to get five people and so on. We can do it, we have to do it for our children and grandchildren... We will take back America!</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1348601436306162" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1348601436306159" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;">By Mychal Massie<br /><br />At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, "Get used to it" ˆ and with an insouciant grin an chortle, he told another person at the event, who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to "get a more fuel-efficient car."<br /><br />The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington . And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they're spending and living large at taxpayer expense ˆ opulent vacations, gala balls resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf. In the 1950's they called it acting NIGGER RICH.<br /><br />Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States . The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential ˆ which is why it's so offensive when we hea Obama say, in order "to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice ˆ but we don't have to sacrifice the America w believe in."<br /><br />The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they've never had two nickels to rub together ˆ and now, having hit the mother lode, they're going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers' expense.<br /><br />Obama continues to exhibit behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column, I asked, "Is Obama unraveling? "I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.<br /><br />At that time, I wrote that not having things go one's way can be a bitter pill, but reasonable people don't behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon, where he had been an invited guest. I had speculated that was, in part, what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress, the nation and the world, during the 2010 State of the Union address.<br /><br />It appeared, at that time, as if he were "fraying around the emotional edges." That behavior has not abated ˆ it has become more pronounced While addressing the nation, after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya , America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.<br /><br />But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt, he took his scornful, unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of "The Tudors" television series, he invited Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan's budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama's actions.<br /><br />Today, criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said, "I have been very disappointed in [Obama], to the point where I'm embarrassed that I endorsed him. It's so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?" ("Democrats' Disgust with Obama," The Daily Beast, April 15, 2011)<br /><br />Steve McCann wrote: Obama's speech "was chock full of lies, deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed" ("The Mendacity of Barack Obama,"<a href="http://americanthinker.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="http://americanthinker.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1348601468_0" style="color: #366388; cursor: pointer;">AmericanThinker.com</span></a> , April 15, 2011).<br /><br />McCann continued: "[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. ..."<br /><br />With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition ˆ how much longer before he crack completely?<br /><br />The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?<br /><br />Hope you forward this to everyone in your address book as we are going to need every vote we can get to remove Obama. The liberals are just unable to absorb what he is doing to our country and will continue to vote for him. Just imagine what he will do to America if he gets another term !</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29609.html">Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, the real race has begun. As Romney picks Paul Ryan as his Vice President, liberal heads starting exploding. Many liberal pundits speculated Romney would choose a safe candidate such as Portman or Pawlenty. Ryan states in a big way that the Romney/Ryan ticket is extremely serious about the country's debt service and anemic economy. Ryan is a numbers man. He understands economics and he articulates it as well as anyone I've ever seen. One thing I've noticed is Romney seems energized and invigorated about his choice. Now, the liberals will have to talk about the issues and not as much about Romney's tax returns. My side note, <i>I'm more concerned what Obama is doing with the American taxpayer's money than I am what Romney does with his own money. </i>I've been away and not paying much attention to the news, however, I enjoy how the DNC and White House sends out the talking points to the main stream media. What I did hear was John Sinunu, former Governor of New Hampshire, school Juan Williams on Fox news and then, Soledad O'Brien on CNN (I think it was CNN, nobody watches CNN anymore). Over the weekend, I heard Rich Lowry eviscerate MSNBC's darling, Rachel Maddow. She was stumbling and couldn't find an answer, in which Lowry made fun of her. And last but not least, CNN's Wolf Blitzer hammered DNC Chair, Debbie Was A Man Schultz over the Ryan Medicare plan her lying and deliberately spreading misinformation that has metastasized through the liberal ranks. The bottom line is Obama's plan is to take 716 billion (also, I've heard 719 and 746 billion) from Medicare, basically to pay for Obama care. I guess blatant lying is totally acceptable in politics? I know that is a ridiculous statement. Lying and politics go together like peas and carrots! Moving on to the controversy, Obama's plan cuts 716 billion dollars from Medicare to fund Obama Care over the next ten years. Ryan's plan does not effect anyone 55 years or older, period. For people 54 and younger, there would be an option to stay in the same exact plan or receive a voucher for private insurance. Ryan's plan doesn't rob medicare. How can the democrats say it doesn't hurt seniors when the plan takes almost three quarters of a trillion dollars? For the next 82 days, we must be very visible and promote the truth. I realize lying seems to be the norm, the conservatives need to change the narrative. I believe Romney and Ryan will do exactly that. Americans will come together and rally to change the tenants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on November 6, 2012. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_Prosperity</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wolf Blitzer hammers Debbie Wasserman Schultz on false Medicare claims:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>John Sinunu schools Soledad O'Brien on Medicare:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">At one of four fundraisers in Illinois yesterday, the President of the United States <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-chicago-example-what-makes-country-great_649896.html" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">said</a>, "Chicago is an example of what makes this country great." This in the city where a <a href="http://cdn.stripersonline.com/c/cf/cf9bd4f8_rahm_ballet_01.jpeg" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">former ballet dancer</a>-turned mayor called in Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam to <a href="http://www.ebony.com/black-listed/news-views/mayor-rahm-emanuel-calls-on-farrakhan-for-help" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">police</a> the mean streets and turned away<a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/14102489-418/rahm-emanuel-no-regrets-on-my-chick-fil-a-comments.html" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">Chick-fil-A</a> for taking a stand for traditional marriage.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But that wasn't the worst of it. At one fundraiser held at <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/13/obama_a_new_vision_of_an_america_which_prosperity_is_shared.html" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">Bridgeport Art Center</a>, the always upbeat and encouraging Obama, speaking on behalf of "many folks" and leaving his failed policies out of the equation, said "Too many folks still don't have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today. And so, the question in this election is which way do we go?"</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Immediately after asking that question the President answered it himself. Seems Obama doesn't like the old America, and the direction he wants to head is "forward" to "a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared," not earned.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Nonetheless, in Obama's new America, the government controls profits in much the same way Michelle controls what and how much Barry eats. Quite simply, the Obama plan is to have the federal government seize property from the prosperous and distribute it as he sees fit, and then after redistributing other people's <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 176, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(17, 176, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: 'times new roman', times !important; font-size: 16px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">wealth</span>, justifying the confiscation of personal property as being necessary to establish fairness and maintain the common good. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">What American doesn't believe that "you can make it here if you try?" Those are certainly old American values. Unless Barack Obama's idea of "trying" means that any amount of effort suffices, and if you at least try a little but fail to prosper, then a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 176, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(17, 176, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: 'times new roman', times !important; font-size: 16px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">person</span> who's worked harder and has prospered more will be compelled under government edict to help you "make it."</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Sharing prosperity can only mean that those who have prospered will be forced to relinquish an even greater portion of their good fortune. That is how, in Obama's "new America," a better; more equal tomorrow will be furthered for everyone - except hardworking people whose <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 176, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(17, 176, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: 'times new roman', times !important; font-size: 16px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">earnings</span> will be forcibly purloined.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But despite his plans to take yet another step closer to "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">fundamentally transforming</a> the United States of America" from something old into something new, there is still <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4452873694084701422" name="_GoBack" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;"></a>a playful side to President Obama. At the Iowa state fair, a few days after introducing his "new America" spiel and in lieu of forbidden <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/13/obama_in_iowa_michelle_has_told_me_i_cannot_have_a_fried_twinkie.html" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">fried Twinkies</a>, Barack Obama used the occasion to exhibit allegiance to fair-mindedness and equality by mentioning both the "butter cow" and the "chocolate moose."</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Then, after referring to the moo and the moose, a disappointed Obama said he was forbidden by the Secret Service to use the bumper cars, which would have provided the President the perfect vehicle for an Iowa state fair object lesson to illustrate the direction he plans to take in his "new America," where prosperity -- and everything else that happens -- is shared.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Biden - "They are going to put y'all back in chains." Racist remark</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obama - "That will go good with my pok chops." Love the slang</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pelosi - Contempt vote is about voter suppression, not Fast and Furious."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clueless in San Francisco.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John Kerry - "I served in Viet Nam." (perpetual)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In almost 4 years, the President of the United States accrued a novel of deeds that Conservatives and regular Americans despise. I haven't posted in quite awhile. However, I feel the need to start again since we are roughly 14o days away from the most important election in the last 50 years, maybe, for the short existence of our great republic. In all of my years, I've never seem a President act as UN-Presidential as Barack Hussein Obama. I feel he has tarnished the Office of the President. Having said that, I have not given up. I believe when we elect Mitt Romney as President, he will be able to turn the economy around and put people back to work. Also, we will gain our backbone again concerning foreign policy. No, I don't think Romney is an expert in foreign policy, I do feel he will choose an expert for the Secretary of State position. I like John Bolton for this position. Remember, Obama had zero experience in any of departments, case in point, look at the world, our economy, Europe's economy, etc... Below is a list of Obama deeds and lies. I must confess, I forgot a lot of these. There are so many, it is easy to forget. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Elizabeth Warren: You didn't get there on your own:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are we seeing a pattern here? The <strike>liberals</strike> socialists are showing what they are made of. Obama is a Marxist. I posted a while back that 72 democrats were registered socialists. What I don't understand is that socialism has never worked in history. Margaret Thatcher once said, " The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." A very famous statement and could not be more true today. Great Britain is attempting to dismantle their national health care system. Canadians come to the United States for health care. Where will they go? Socialist Europe is imploding because of their debt and entitlements. I became a Conservative Republican when I realized how the Democrat/Liberals threw money at problems instead of comprehensively fixing issues and problems. Johnson & Carter did a lot of damage to this country. Johnson ok'd allowing the Social Security funds go into the general fund. That is why we do not have an S.S. escrow. It is broke because politicians (elected officials) spent it like it was their own money. Yes, we are headed for a fiscal cliff if we don't stop the ridiculous spending and ween the population off of entitlements and put them back to work. American citizens want to work, they want to support themselves. Romney can accomplish this paramount feat. As this rather warm Summer rolls on, the Conservative movement, Tea Party members and concerned citizens need to rise up and articulate their views and thoughts. I was there in 2009, when we marched on the Capital and I will be there again. Please get involved, your childrens' future depends on it. Please read the 1001 reasons why we should not re-elect Obama. </span><br />
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<div class="fb-like fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget" data-send="false" data-show-faces="false" data-width="450" style="display: inline-block; position: relative;"><span style="display: inline-block; height: 24px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 450px;"><iframe class="fb_ltr " id="fe1ddbf74" name="fb9481da8" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df28217fb54%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.conservativedailynews.com%252Ff2f7dc4764%26domain%3Dwww.conservativedailynews.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativedailynews.com%2F2012%2F06%2F1001-reasons-to-vote-against-barack-obama-complete-edition%2F&layout=standard&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=450" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; height: 24px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; width: 450px;" title="Like this content on Facebook."></iframe></span></div></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/06/1001-reasons-to-vote-against-barack-obama-complete-edition/obama-head-down/" rel="attachment wp-att-57536" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-57536" height="313" src="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/obama-head-down.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;" title="obama-head-down" width="453" /></a></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">This is the full list of <strong>1001 Reasons to Vote Against Barack Obama</strong>:</div><ol style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The man started his presidency off with a bang by <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/01/faqs-on-obamas-botched-oath-of-office.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">botching</a> his oath of office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">For good measure, he set the tone for his administration for allowing Chief Justice John Roberts to<a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/oath-is-administered-once-again/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">take the blame</a> for the error.<img alt="" src="http://rogueoperator.wordpress.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;" title="More..." /></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8USRg3h4AdE" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promises</a> on the campaign trail to immediately shut down Guantanamo Bay. The detention facility is open three years later and counting.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In the same breath, he promises to restore <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus" rel="wikipedia" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a></em>. Three years into his term, he <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">signs</a> the National Defense Authorization Act, which leaves open the possibility of indefinite detention of American citizens.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ordered</a> the assassination of an American citizen.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Senator, Obama <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2011/05/26/president-obama-has-a-much-dif" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spoke out</a> against but voted for the Patriot Act.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As President, he extended it, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/27/obama-extends-patriot-acts-emergency-powers-four-more-years/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">with an auto-pen</a>, while he was in France.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/us/politics/25rendition.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">continues</a> the “Bush practice” of extraordinary rendition.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As a candidate, Obama <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/ObamaIrqWr.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promises</a> to end the War in Iraq and bring all troops home within 16 months. He even <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlXfs1K04g" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says</a> in 2007 that it would be the first thing he would do in office, and that “you can take that to the bank.” As president, he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/obama-iraq-troop-withdrawal_n_1024108.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announces</a> all troops would be withdrawn by the end of 2011 (34 months later).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/05/the-top-five-campaign-promises-obama-left-behind/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">states</a> the Afghan War would conclude in June 2011, but <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/11/ap-afghanistan-2014-is-new-date-to-watch-111110/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">projections</a> now have us running into 2014.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Senator, Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_igpyewuzQ" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">opposes</a> the surge in Iraq. He claims that increasing troop levels by 20,000 would actually increase sectarian violence.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When pulling troops out of Iraq, Obama <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143702050/foreign-policy-can-obama-claim-victory-in-iraq" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tries to claim</a> success for ending the war, without giving credit to Bush or the troops for any “<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/awful-obama-declares-end-to-war-in-iraq-but-wont-say-victory-video/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">victory</a>.” The Bush surge was what turned the tide in the war.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Sectarian violence is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraq-violence-up-sharply-since-us-exit/2012/01/17/gIQAUteX6P_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">up sharply</a> since Obama pulled troops out of Iraq in December 2011.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama refuses to say “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/obama-victory-necessarily-goal-afghanistan/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">victory</a>” is necessarily the goal in Afghanistan. Obama reasons the U.S. should not project the image of Emperor Hirohito being forced to sign a treaty of surrender before MacArthur to end the war against Japan.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Emperor Hirohito did not sign the treaty of surrender ending the war against Japan. It was his <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/msh-images/410782128/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">foreign minister Shigemitsu</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2009/04/08/Obama-ready-to-end-Cuba-embargo/UPI-93491239207960/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">plans</a> to ease travel restrictions to communist Cuba in 2009. <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47640.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">And in 2011</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president <a href="http://www.america.gov/st/peacesec-english/2009/April/20090419141446dmslahrellek0.4210474.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pledges</a> a “new beginning” with the Cuban dictatorial regime.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A glance at a Cuban-U.S. relations <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12159943" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">timeline</a> running to December 2011 shows nothing changed.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/20/world/fg-obama-americas20" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">greets</a> Venezuela’s socialist dictator Hugo Chavez <a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.363610%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warmly</a> at the Summit of the Americas.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Earlier that month, Chavez <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/20/world/fg-obama-americas20" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">calls</a> Obama an “ignoramus.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At the same summit, President Obama <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/18/obama-endures-ortega-diatribe/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sits</a> patiently through a 50 minute diatribe against the United States delivered by socialist strongman Daniel Ortega, only scribbling notes instead of walking out with his diplomatic team.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://photos.cleveland.com/plain-dealer/2009/04/barack_obama_daniel_ortega_1.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">meets</a> a grinning Daniel Ortega at the same summit.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When asked later by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper what he thought of the anti-American tirade, President Obama replies, “It was 50 minutes long. That’s what I thought.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The attempted subversion of the rule of law in Honduras by the socialist president Zelaya, which would have unconstitutionally put him on the ballot for a third term, prompts his judicial removal from office. Obama <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47422" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">condemns</a> the supposed “coup” as “not legal.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/04/world/fg-us-honduras4" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">directs</a> his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to cut off $30 million in aid to Honduras.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Election fraud propelling anti-Israel Iranian president and saber-rattling madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back to power leads to a mass civil uprising. Despite reports of widespread and cruel bloodshed repressing the protests, President Obama <a href="http://the-undercurrent.com/how-obama-killed-the-iran-election-protests/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says nothing</a> for ten days.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/144191-obama-us-offering-moral-support-to-iran-protesters" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refuses</a> to “intervene” in pro-democratic Iranian protests.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/obamas-first-call-to-a-foreign-leader-the-pas-mahmoud-abbas.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first call</a> as president is made to the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah leader President Mahmoud Abbas.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/01/president-ob-10-5/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first formal interview</a> is conducted with Al-Arabiya television.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">One of President Obama’s first executive orders is to <a href="http://democracy21.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC=%7B91FCB139-CC82-4DDD-AE4E-3A81E6427C7F%7D&DE=%7B4F1FDD03-0C6D-4111-A6B6-6ECCF2457F52%7D" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">greatly restrict</a> the influence of lobbyists in his administration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Years later, it is <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50081.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">well-known</a> that the Obama administration routinely meets with lobbyists off White House grounds, where Secret Service logs are not kept.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2012, Obama <a href="http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/01/former-lobbyist-promoted-at-wh.php" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promotes</a> a recent lobbyist with Mexican illegal immigration advocate La Raza from a position as director of intergovernmental affairs to director of the Domestic Policy Council.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The second executive order Obama gives is one reversing Bush era rules safeguarding prior administration’s records. It <a href="http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2009/01/22/transparency-and-ethics-obama-s-first-executive-orders.aspx" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">narrows</a> “executive privilege.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2009/12/05/White-House-Hypocrisy-on-Executive-Privilege" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">invokes</a> executive privilege within the first year over the gatecrasher fiasco.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In late 2011, the Obama administration <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/14/source-white-house-will-not-turn-over-all-solyndra-documents/?iref=allsearch" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refuses</a> to turn over all communiques relating to the politically seedy financing of bankrupt solar panel company Solyndra.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Another early executive order froze pay for White House staffers making over $100,000. A year later<a href="http://gawker.com/5818310" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">74%</a> of staffers got a pay raise, <a href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2011/07/0706_whchart.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">many</a> of them to well over a $100,000. (Freezing pay does not apply to promotions or position changes.) The average boost was 9%, three times private sector average.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The next year, <a href="http://gawker.com/5818310" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">54%</a> got a raise. The average increase was 8%, and of those who got raises, it was nearly 16%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c50JUQohYwY" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">declared</a> by presidential historian Michael Beschloss as “probably the smartest guy ever to become president.” Beschloss gushed that Obama’s IQ was “off the charts,” but when pressed by radio host Don Imus, he could not say what Obama’s IQ was.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite being heralded as a brilliant thinker, Obama still <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/17/carney_dodges_question_about_obamas_college_transcripts_i_would_refer_you_to_the_campaign.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to this day</a> refuses to release his college records.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama received a degree from prestigious Columbia University, where <a href="http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hardly anybody</a>recalls him attending there.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As editor of the Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama anonymously wrote <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12705.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">one article</a> – championing abortion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The one quote provided from the article cited by Politico contains a grammatical error – “in to” instead of “into.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">letter</a> to a Harvard newspaper written by Obama shows rampant grammatical errors, including a demonstrable lack of subject-predicate agreement.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em>In Dreams from My Father</em>, Obama <a href="http://nalert.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-i-chose-friends-carefully-marxist.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">makes known</a> that he “chose his friends carefully” and deliberately sought out “Marxist Professors,” “structural feminists,” and discussed with his friends the socialist, anti-colonialist revolutionary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Franz Fanon</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before becoming president, Barack Obama authored not just one, but two biographies, making him<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/politics/17obama.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">millions</a> of dollars.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In his book <em>The Audacity of Hope</em>, Obama was <a href="http://www.issues2000.org/social/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cited</a> as saying The Constitution is a “living document,” that can be interpreted “in the context of an ever-changing world” (i.e. however he wants).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before becoming an author, the president admitted he wrote some “very bad poetry.” This is true. Just<a href="http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=7454" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">one sample</a> shows the same tendency to split a conjoined word: it’s not “under water,” it’s “underwater.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Literary analysis performed by an expert at detecting forgery and fraud points to the strong possibility that Obama’s biographies were <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">written</a> by ghostwriters.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Additional <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/three_cheers_for_jack_cashill.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evidence</a> shows that the ghost writer for <em>Dreams from My Father</em> may very well have been unrepentant socialist terrorist and then-contemporary English professor William Ayers of the Weather Underground.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Barack Obama was young, he was mentored by Moscow-connected Communist Party member<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Frank Marshall Davis</a>. Identified as only “Frank” in his biography <em>Dreams from my Father</em>, it was claimed that “Frank” was a poet on par with contemporary <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=12026" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">communist poet</a> Langston Hughes. It was later discovered that this had to be Davis, a poet who had indeed joined the Communist Party USA. Obama later <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obama-confirms-relationship-with-cpusa-member/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">confirmed</a> the relationship with Davis while attempting to distance himself from him.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In late 2008, Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs denied to Chris Matthews that William Ayers held a fundraiser for Barack Obama. Later on, William Ayers was caught <a href="http://freedomslighthouse.net/2011/11/29/new-video-shows-what-obama-has-long-denied-william-ayers-admitting-he-held-an-obama-fundraiser-in-his-home-at-launch-of-obamas-political-career-video/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on tape</a> admitting that he held a fundraiser for Obama in which the future president was in attendance.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As ABC News <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1#.Txb7b_ma-eU" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> in March 2008, Obama’s pastor of 20 years, baptizer of his children, and “<a href="http://www.realclearreligion.org/2011/12/09/jeremiah_wright039s_gospel_245057.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">close confidante</a>” Reverend Wright was confirmed on numerous occasions as incorporating heated anti-American rhetoric into his sermons, such as “goddamn America,” and claiming 9/11 was deserved as “America’s chickens coming home to roost.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Politico and ABC News <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68935.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a>, criminal Tony Rezko, who was convicted of corruption, gave President Obama a sweetheart deal on real estate property and donated $120,000 to Obama’s Senate campaign.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/12/09/33458/rahm-blago/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by Think Progress as probably having been the whistleblower who outed impeached and convicted former governor Rod Blagojevich in the pay-to-play scandal. Such an action suggests that Emanuel may have been seeking to distance Obama from Blagojevich. Recordings of Blagojevich repeatedly mentioning Emanuel along with potential candidate and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett, and <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-17/news/ct-met-blagojevich-retrial-rahm-emanu20110417_1_blagojevich-retrial-rahm-emanuel-valerie-jarrett" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">testimony</a> that Emanuel relayed a message to the governor that Obama would “value and appreciate” consideration of Jarrett, provide strong appearance of ethical misconduct.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Multiple sources provide documented, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/08/will-msm-report-obama-membership-socialist-new-party" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">archived evidence</a> that Barack Obama was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America-connected <a href="http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/warner_todd_huston/2008/may/29/obama_sought_endorsement_of_marxist_third_party_in_1996" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“New Party”</a> in Illinois.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2325" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Verifiable communist</a> Alice Palmer, who worked for well-known Soviet front group U.S. Peace Council, <a href="http://theobamafile.com/_associates/AlicePalmer.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hand-picked</a> Obama to be her successor as state senator. Described by the LA Times as Obama’s “mentor,” she later <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/once-obamas-men.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">endorsed</a> fellow Alinskyite Hillary Clinton.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As state senator, President Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Fp_hTO0kU" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">voted “present”</a> nearly 130 times.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama was given 100% “pro-choice” rating by abortion advocates NARAL. As state senator, Obama voted against banning partial birth abortion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2007, Senator Obama was rated as the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502163_162-3775451-502163.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">most liberal senator</a>, according to his <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/O000167/key-votes/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">voting record</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama had been given glowing <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obama_and_the_cpusa.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">endorsement</a> by the Communist Party USA.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In early 2009, President Obama <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-03-15/news/17918613_1_toxic-assets-obama-supporter-obama-administration/2" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says</a> the following, “I don’t like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government’s role.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em>Time</em> magazine reports that Obama’s $787 billion “stimulus” plan, which no GOP in the House voted for, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1910208,00.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fails</a> by its own measures. Unemployment still above 8%, economy continues to bleed jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Barack Obama publicly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4D-Yy97gg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promises</a> to go “line by line” through legislation to remove wasteful earmarks.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama stimulus gave $200,000 to teach Siberian lawmakers how to engage Russian policy makers in Moscow.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Stimulus funding of $250,000 went to bug storage for an insect museum at North Carolina State University that gets 44 visitors a year.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Gave $500,000 to put microchips in recycling bins to check up on the recycling efforts of senior citizens.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$5 million to create a geothermal energy system for the Oak Ridge City Center shopping mall in Oak Ridge, Tenn.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Provided $712,000 spent on a project by researchers at Northwestern University to develop “machine-generated humor.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Buses in Winter Haven, Florida that average two riders per hour got $2.4 million so that the two riders per hour would have brand new buses to ride on.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A Georgia Tech assistant music professor got $760,000 so he could jam with “world renowned musicians” to “create satisfying works of art.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The California Academy of Sciences got $2 million dollars to send people to the Indian Ocean to photograph ants. “Everyone has run into ants … now we need to listen to them,” one ant photographer said.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The University of North Carolina received $762,000 to create a YouTube dance application.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the <a href="http://www.twainquotes.com/Government.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Mark Twain</em></a> National Forest in Missouri.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$3.4 million to create an underground turtle tunnel, or eco-passage, in Lake Jackson, Florida.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">About a half-million dollars to give smartphones to people trying to quit smoking so they could “contact their quitting support groups by text message or phone calls to prevent relapses.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Almost $300,000 to study how Yoga might reduce menopausal hot flashes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$700,000 to Oregon crab fishermen to help recover lost crab post.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$1.5 <em>billion</em> for a Carbon Capturing Contest.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091021-radioactive-rabbit-droppings-nuclear-obama-stimulus.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings</a> at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">SUNY Buffalo received $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Montana received $2.2 million to install skylights in their state-run liquor warehouse.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$800,000 given to John Murtha Airport to repave a back runway used by about 20 passengers a day. This was in addition to millions given to this airport over the decades.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$1 million was given to a Chicago dinner cruise company to “combat terrorism.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Coast Guard gets $572 million to create 1,235 new jobs. This comes to $460,000 per job.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Oklahoma.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minnesota.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Millions spent on <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-stimulus/story?id=11163180#.Txm2F_mfKUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">signs</a> advertising the “American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama carries out much of the $700 billion TARP program. Obama forces banks to take money, and even <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refuses</a> to accept repayment in some cases to wield control over them.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama takes over two of three top U.S. automakers GM & Chrysler.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20625.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">essentially fires</a> GM CEO Rick Wagoner.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama replaces the previous GM CEO with “Auto Czar” Steve Rattner, who had no experience in the automobile industry.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Steven Rattner was appointed (without Senate confirmation) while he was <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992516941227309.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">under SEC investigation</a> in NY for illegal kickbacks in exchange for pensions fraud.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Rattner <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/12/gm-general-motors-chrysler-auto-bailout-loss-obama/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">estimated</a> the cost to U.S. taxpayers for auto bailouts at $14 billion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502135.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">deprives</a> GM bondholders of their rightful compensation in order to maintain perquisites for United Auto Workers, which drove the company into bankruptcy to begin with. This is in violation of Article 1: Section 8 <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">clause</a> on uniform bankruptcies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite being called a “success,” <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/06/barack_obama_democrats_call_the_auto_bailouts_a_success_but_did_they_work.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">at least 16,500 jobs</a> were lost due to GM and Chrysler plant closures.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Dealerships contracted with GM & Chrysler all over the country were shut down. <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-05-28/wall_street/30046808_1_chrysler-dealers-dealership-obama-donor" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Evidence suggests</a>that Democrat-donating dealers were rescued from shutdowns.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s touted “cash for clunkers” program was a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204884404574366664026140786.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fiasco</a> that led to program mismanagement, taxpayer subsidized waste, and a <a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/minnecon/assets_c/2010/06/autos-thumb-480x288.png" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">temporary</a> boost leading to original purchase levels.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Thousands of cars were destroyed, harming the ability of the poor to have cheap transportation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Evidence shows that the program led only to an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/was-cash-for-clunkers-a-clunker/2011/11/04/gIQA42EhpM_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">increase</a> in national fuel efficiency of 0.65 miles per gallon.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As part of the GM takeover, Obama authorized <a href="http://www.lessgovernment.org/2011/12/22/merry-christmas-from-government-chevy-volt-costing-taxpayers-up-to-250000-per-vehicle-sold/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">billions</a> to be spent subsidizing the electric-powered Chevy Volt.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The car was <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/07/chevy-volt-battery-fix-may-cost-1-000-will-hang-on-to-top-iihs/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">alleged by many</a> to be prone to spontaneous combustion. Every single Chevy Volt sold, all <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-gm-call-back-8-000-chevy-160059632.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">8,000</a> of them, were recalled.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">High campaign <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">contributor</a>General Electric received billions in subsidies, <a href="http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/29/ge-gets-over-2-3-federal-energy-grants-every-month/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">grants</a>, and green energy<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tax breaks</a> under Obama. In fact, GE paid <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/how-much-were-your-taxes-general-electric-paid-0" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">zero taxes</a> in 2010 on $14.2 billion in “profit.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">General Electric spent more than <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/01/immelt-daley-and-obamas-antipathy-free-markets/109710" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$65.7 million</a> on lobbying during the Obama administration – more than any other company.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Former GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt was made Obama’s “<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18560_162-20117416.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jobs Czar</a>,” technically, the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/advisory-boards/jobs-council" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">head</a> of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Immelt once lamented that America was not more like Germany, where “business and government work… as a pack.” As writer Timothy Carney pointed out at the <em>Washington Examiner</em>, Germany is 49 of 57 countries ranked in terms of nascent entrepreneurship, and “the biggest German companies today – Allianz, Deutsche Bank, Daimler, Siemens, Volkswagen, Krupp – were the biggest companies 90 years ago.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">GE has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/obama-picks-jeffrey-immel-ge-jobs-overseas_n_812502.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sent</a> tens of thousands of its jobs overseas under Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">GE spearheaded the commission that pushed through the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/congress-saves-incandescent-bulbs-too-bad-theyre-made-161900648.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ban</a> on incandescent light bulbs. The company, along with Phillips, stood to make billions on <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7431198" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">toxic</a> and <a href="http://www.greenpasture.org/fermented-cod-liver-oil-butter-oil-vitamin-d-vitamin-a/the-dangerous-fraud-behind-the-forced-use-of-compact-fluorescent-lights/#1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">overhyped</a> compact fluorescent light bulbs. In the meantime, GE closed the last major incandescent plant in the country, meaning lost jobs here and thousands gained in China. The light bulb ban was later <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/congress-defunds-ban-on-incandescent-light-bulbs-but-doesnt-quite-save-them/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">defunded</a> by the Republican-led House, but not overturned.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">GE’s previously owned company MSNBC was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC#Pro-Obama_bias" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">notorious</a> on both right and left for showing indisputably favorable coverage to Barack Obama during the 2008 election campaign. MSNBC was later bought out by Comcast, which now has a 51% majority share.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Another major green energy supplier, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/01/bankrupt-solar-company-with-fed-backing-has-cozy-ties-to-obama-admin/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Solyndra</a>, was famously given at least $535 million in government loans to produce solar energy panels, but later had to file <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/business/energy-environment/solyndra-solar-firm-aided-by-federal-loans-shuts-doors.html?scp=1&sq=solar%20firm%20aided%20by%20U.S.%20shuts%20doors&st=cse" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bankruptcy</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Solyndra was led by Tulsa Billionaire George Kaiser, a key Obama fundraiser who donated $53,500 to the president’s election campaign, and raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the same cause.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Solyndra workers on unemployment received <a href="http://netrightdaily.com/2011/11/solyndra-workers-hit-taxpayer-jackpot-again/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bonus</a> payments of $13,000 each due to a trade law, in addition to their unemployment compensation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As reported by CBS, Solyndra was recently <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/solyndra/2012/01/20/solyndra-caught-tape-screwing-taxpayers" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">caught on film</a> destroying millions in parts.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Solyndra was a relatively minor recipient of green energy loans and subsidies. As <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/business/energy-environment/a-cornucopia-of-help-for-renewable-energy.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by the <em>NY Times</em>, NRG Energy received nearly $1.6 billion to provide solar energy to about 100,000 homes. As the article points out, green energy companies can receive cash grants of up to 30% of a project up front instead of taking tax breaks in the future. This would mean NRG Energy can get a $430 million “bonus” after the project is completed.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to the Department of Energy, “clean energy” loans total <a href="https://lpo.energy.gov/?page_id=45" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">over $35 billion</a>, producing just 62,500 jobs. That calculates to $565,000 per job.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The man Obama selected to oversee the Department of Energy, Steven Chu, once <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/09/21/steven-chu-americans-are-like-teenage-kids-when-it-comes-to-energy/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">explicitly compared</a> the American public to teenagers who need to be “educated” on the merits of “green energy.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Admitted communist <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Van Jones</a>, who once said on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZYPZP14XWY" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">live radio</a> that his intention was to overthrow capitalism through the means of “eco-capitalism,” was tapped as Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar.” A former White House aide provides a <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/04/the-real-van-jones-scandal-why" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">testimonial</a> that everyone who works close to the president is thoroughly vetted.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Van Jones was later forced to resign, after months of major media stonewalling, only after it was discovered that the man was a verifiable 9/11 “<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Truther</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Van Jones was selected for the position by Obama confidante <a href="http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-jarrett-connection-proof-that-obamas-hawaii-and-chicago-communist-networks-were-linked/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Valerie Jarrett</a>, a fellow-traveling radical whose father <a href="http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/08/barack-obama-and-valerie-jarrett-brought-together-by-fickle-fate-or-something-more/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vernon Davis</a> was a card-carrying communist who knew Frank Marshall Davis. Valerie Jarrett’s mentor was <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/mkatz2.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marilyn Katz</a>, who worked security for Students for a Democratic Society, knows William Ayers intimately, and penned a book with famous communist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2322" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Carl Davidson</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Former head of the Environmental Protect Agency <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Browner" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Carol M. Browner</a>, director of Obama’s Energy and Climate Change policy from 2009-2011, was <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by the <em>Washington Times</em> to have been a member of the Socialist Internationale’s <a href="http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=1853" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commission for a Sustainable World Society</a>. (Note the number and variety of world leaders.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s “Science Czar” <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/21/obamas-science-czar-considered-forced-abortions-sterilization-population-growth/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John Holdren</a> once co-wrote a book advocating forced abortions, and widespread sterilization. He also advocating centralizing world government control of all natural resources under a “Planetary Regime.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s “Regulatory Czar” Cass Sunstein wrote a book on how to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Sunstein-t.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“nudge”</a> people in government’s desired direction, while advocating methods such as using copyright laws to achieve an <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/20/regulatory-czar-wants-to-use-copyright-protection-mechanisms-to-shut-down-rumors-and-conspiracy-theories/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“optimum chilling effect”</a> over free speech, and to eliminate “<a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/constitutional-law/sunstein-chair-lecture.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">conspiracy theories</a>,” such as manmade global warming theory being a <a href="http://cfact.org/pdf/ClimateDepot_A-Z_ClimateRealityCheck.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fraud</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama appointed former Bush adviser Howard Schmidt to be an unaccountable “<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6OJujkqDi2k_miJTeIqtKatnD3Q" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cyber Czar</a>.” The announcement came as the Pentagon opened up its own cybercommand unit and the Department of Homeland Security hired 1,000 cybersecurity specialists.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">FCC Chair Julius Genachowski implemented rules tantamount to “<a href="http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/10/net-neutrality-survives-senate-vote.aspx" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Net Neutrality</a>,” despite a <a href="http://patdollard.com/2010/12/fccs-net-neutrality-ruling-violates-court-order/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">court order</a> reprimanding the agency for <a href="http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/01/19/net-neutrality-power-grab-is-worse-than-obamacare/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lacking the authority</a> to do so. The House voted to strike down the “Open Internet” regulations, but the Senate recently voted against nullifying them. The regulations are currently <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/21/fcc-net-neutrality-rules-take-effect-experts-doubt-longevity/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">in force</a>, but it is unclear how long they will last.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Lightsquared, a wireless technology firm, was given FCC exemptions to build out a 4G wireless network, allowing it to acquire bandwidth on the cheap. The owner of the company Phil Falcone was a <a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/09/14/6458/emails-show-wireless-firms-communications-white-house-campaign-donations-were-made" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">campaign contributor</a> to Obama to the tune of $30,400.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Thousands of emails acquired under FOIA request suggest that the Obama administration pressured Air Force General William Shelton to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gop-lawmakers-scrutinize-lightsquared/2011/09/15/gIQAFK1iVK_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stifle criticism</a> of a potential Lightsquared military contract that the company’s operations could interfere with the military’s GPS positioning system.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to the <em>Examiner</em>, then-Senator Barack Obama was steered by financial advisor George Haywood into <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-and-soros-invested-in-lightsquared" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">investing $90,000</a> in Lightsquared when it was called Skyterra. Billionaire investor George Soros, a well-known financier of radical causes, was also prominent as an investor.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The BP oil spill, the largest in U.S. history, was only slowed after action was taken by the administration <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/27/us-oil-rig-leak-idUSTRE6430AR20100527" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>40 days</em></a> into the spill. Former Clinton strategist James Carville took the president to task for his <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/21/obama-faces-new-wave-of-c_n_585620.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lack of leadership</a> on the matter.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">BP was strongarmed by the president into creating a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june10/shieldsbrooks_06-18.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$20 billion escrow</a> account for damage claims, in violation of Fifth Amendment due process rights.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama enacted and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704269204575270031411598538.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">extended</a> an offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico after the spill. Despite a federal <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/federal-judge-blocks-obamas-oil-moratorium-10985735" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">court order</a> over-ruling the moratorium, Obama continued it anyway. As <em>ABC News</em> reported, months after the BP oil spill leak was plugged, clean up crews <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-crude-mother-nature-breaks-slick/story?id=11254252#.TxrGwfnEOUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">could not find</a> the oil spill, as the Gulf had apparently broken it up. The administration <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/10/obama-aide-oil-drilling-moratorium-may-end-very-soon/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promised</a> to lift the moratorium in late 2010, but rescinded it and instead established a <a href="http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/5360-obama-admin-imposes-7-year-drilling-moratorium" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">seven-year moratorium</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The oil moratorium cost American workers at least <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/study-obamas-oil-moratorium-has-cost-19000-jobs-and-1-1-billion-in-wages/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">19,000 jobs</a> and $1.1 billion in wages. The Gulf drilling company Seahawk was forced into <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/15/first-gulf-of-mexico-drilling-company-seahawk-files-bankruptcy-because-of-offshore-drilling-moratorium/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bankruptcy</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Export-Import Bank, whose <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hochberg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">chair</a> was selected by Obama, guaranteed a loan of $2 billion to Brazilian oil company Petrobras SA for offshore oil drilling. A widely distributed, but <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">obviously erroneous</a> article filled with half-truths and distortions published by <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/03/17/dispelling-the-petrobras-loan-myth-as-obama-heads-to-rio/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Forbes</em></a> admits that Obama contributor and fundraiser George Soros indeed did profit from holding shares in Petrobras SA.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">This is what President Obama <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-vows-to-help-brazil-drill-for-oil" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> on his visit to Brazil in March 2011, “We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In the first year of Obama’s administration, he won the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10nobel.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nobel Peace Prize</a>, even though wars overseas were still ongoing, and future undeclared wars and conflicts were yet to be carried out by the man.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama is the only commander-in-chief to violate the <a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/levin-obama-only-president-not-to-comply-with-war-powers-act/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">War Powers Act</a>. As ABC reported, Obama was <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/06/boehner-warns-obama-to-act-by-sunday-or-risk-violating-war-powers-act/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warned</a> ahead of time by Congress and he ignored it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In President Obama’s <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34360743/ns/politics-white_house/t/full-text-obamas-nobel-peace-prize-speech/#.TxsADfnEOUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">acceptance speech</a>, he said, “One urgent example is the effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and to seek a world without them. ” Calling this agenda a “centerpiece” of his foreign policy, the president dismissed the contention held by numerous scholars that nuclear weapons likely <em>prevented</em> World War III. Getting the United States to disband its nuclear weapons program was a major centerpiece of the former USSR’s active measures campaign, which was carried out by such institutions as the communist front <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Peace_Council" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">World Peace Council</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s Secretary of State offered a <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-07/world/us.russia_1_lavrov-reset-russian-reporter?_s=PM:WORLD" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“reset” button</a> to Russia early on in his administration. Labeled<em>peregruzka</em>, the button actually said “overcharge” in Russian. The correct term is <em>perezagruzka</em>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6720153.stm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cancelled</a> plans to station an anti-ballistic missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">narrows</a> the conditions under which nuclear weapons are authorized to be used, including ruling them out for retaliation against chemical and biological attack from non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At the end of 2011, Russia <a href="http://themoscownews.com/news/20111123/189226146.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">threatens</a> to pull out of START, due to complaints about its conventional arms build-up in Europe. In 2008, Russia pulled out of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaty, which had limited regional military presence on the European continent, and also launched a military campaign into Georgia after meddling in that state’s territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Obama <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/22/us-to-stop-sharing-data-with-russia-on-us-forces-in-europe/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shared data</a> with Russia on U.S. forces in Europe, while discussions with Russia over developing and even<em> joint administering</em> an ABM defense system in Europe led to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/politics/8926384/Dmitry-Medvedev-US-anti-ballastic-missile.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">vehement saber-rattling</a> from the Kremlin.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Russia helped Iran build a nuclear power plant in Bushehr, and despite denials by the Democrats in the not-so-distant past, the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/nuclear_program/index.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Iranians hav</a>e a nuclear weapons program. Obama <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Barack-Obama-Irans-economy-a-shambles-after-sanctions/articleshow/11570119.cms" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">complained</a> of the effect of sanctions on Iran’s economy, though <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204517204577042490257658040.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">remaining unable</a> to get Russia and China on board with implementing the sanctions.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Iran <a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/12/29/185248.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">threatened </a>to block the Strait of Hormuz in December 2011, while taunting the U.S. Navy there.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/01/militarys-weapon-against-iranian-mines-high-tech-dolphins/47384/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dispatched</a> a team of dolphins to deal with the situation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2011, the United States <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1209/Downed-US-drone-How-Iran-caught-the-beast" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">loses</a> a sophisticated spy drone in Iran. President Obama is <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16154743" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rebuffed</a> when he <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-asks-iran-rq-170-sentinel-drone-back/story?id=15140133#.TxsQRfnEOUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">asks</a> the rogue state for the drone back. Instead, the Iranians offer a <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/iran-offers-u-s-tiny-replica-of-lost-drone/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">miniature model</a> to the president.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Early in his administration, President Obama, acting as an official head of state, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bowed deeply</a> to the Saudi prince.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/11/on-president-obamas-bow-to-the-japanese-emperor-an-academic-friend-writes-that-both-the-left-and-the-right-are-wrong/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">botches</a> the traditional bow to the Japanese emperor, displaying weakness to the country.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Barack Obama first moved into the Oval Office, he <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sent</a> ally Britain back its gift of a Winston Churchill bust.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159627/To-special-friend-Gordon-25-DVDs-Obama-gives-Brown-set-classic-movies-Lets-hope-likes-Wizard-Oz.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gave</a> Prime Minister Gordon Brown a gift set of DVDs not even formatted correctly for play in Europe.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama gave the queen <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/01/confirmed-queens-ipod-includes-obamas-speeches/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">an Ipod</a> with his speeches on it. Michelle Obama breaks obvious protocol and<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30017148/ns/world_news-europe/t/michelle-obama-charms-britain-hugs-queen/#.TxsWRvnEOUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hugs</a> the queen.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Obama visited Westminster Abbey in 2011, he signed the guest book May 24, 2008.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama made a <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/21/nation/na-obama-special-olympics21" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">joke</a> on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno about a recent bowling game, ““I bowled a 129….it was like Special Olympics, or something.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Actually, the president <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2008/04/02/barack-obamas-bowling-disaster.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bowled</a> a <em>37</em>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When President Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJBlwUfIoDk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">threw</a> out the first pitch at baseball game, he nearly launched it into the bleachers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While praising troops at Fort Drum, NY for their service in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama said, “A comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the <a data-group-id="0" data-skim-creative="10003" data-skim-product="0" data-skimwords-id="1009305" data-skimwords-word="medal%20of%20honor" href="http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=medal+of+honor" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shopping link added by SkimWords">Medal of Honor</a> to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.” Wrong hero. Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was killed in action. Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta, was the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor that fought in Afghanistan.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama famously <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9iCANi02o" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">failed to salut</a>e the flag while Senator as he attended a steak fry with Tom Harkin in Indianola, IA 2007.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Five days before Obama was elected, he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cqN4NIEtOY" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> that he wanted to “fundamentally transform” America. Cause you know, that’s why we elect presidents.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xNyrzB0xI" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">interview</a> given before he was sworn in to be president, Barack Obama states that the Constitution had “deep flaws.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhixkpZA6D4&feature=related" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claims</a> he is fighting something “uncomfortably similar” to Nazism in the United States.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama was the top corporate campaign donations recipient during the 2008 elections, <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contriball.php?cycle=2008" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">far exceeding</a> John McCain. Three of Obama’s top contributors were Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and Google.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner never worked for Goldman Sachs, his adviser Gene Perling <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abo3Zo0ifzJg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">did</a>. Sachs received preferential treatment during TARP, because its investments in AIG were effectively insured by the U.S. government. AIG was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/goldman-sachs-obama-money_b_177611.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pushed off a cliff</a>, and then taken over by the government. GS was compensated for what would have been “toxic assets.” Goldman Sachs alum Hank Paulson, who was Treasury Secretary at the time of the <s>bailout</s> hostile takeover, insisted the AIG CEO step aside for fellow Goldman Sachs alum Edward Liddy, who even held millions in Goldman Sachs shared at the time.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On the campaign trail, after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Liddy" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Liddy</a> (who was working for a salary of $1) was excoriated for authorizing a $444,000 retreat for AIG staff, President Obama said that AIG executives should give the money back and its heads should be fired. Liddy was AIG head until late August 2009.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration hired several Goldman Sachs alums, such as GS lobbyist <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abo3Zo0ifzJg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mark Patterson</a>, unusual for an administration more stacked with academics <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/11/does_obama_admi.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">than businessmen</a>. The ties are deep and murky, and includes a revolving door of Goldman Sachs alums in such institutions as the NY Fed, where Geithner was the Chair.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s first budget director Peter Orszag, a career academic who became a protege of Goldman alum Robert Rubin, <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/ex-white-house-budget-director-joins-citigroup/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">left</a> the administration after a year and a half to draw a multi-million dollar check from Citigroup, where Rubin sat on the board.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once said, “Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, I am an <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/35564308" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">ardent believer</a> in the free market.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As a candidate, Barack Obama famously remarked to “Joe the Plumber”, “I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He also said, “I, like most of the American people, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKGZkktzkAlA" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">don’t begrudge</a> people success or wealth. That is part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market" rel="wikipedia" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" title="Free market">free-market system</a>.” This was after Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein received a $9 million bonus and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dillon received a $17 million payoff. Both firms received bailouts.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama also <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20871.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>, ““My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks. “ He may have been right.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After Timothy Geithner, who earlier oversaw the initial stages of the AIG “bailout” as Chair of the NY Fed, proposed a bank tax to recoup AIG bonuses, Obama said, “<em>Like it or not</em>, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">One company heavy into <a href="http://www.carbon-investments.co.uk/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">carbon investments</a>, and would make huge profits on a cap-and-trade regime was <a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/goldman-sachs-buys-into-carbon-offsets/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Goldman Sachs</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/23/obama-support-builds-cap-and-trade/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">supported</a> cap-and-trade, which would have caused a huge burden on those paying for public utilities.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once publicly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://mg.co.za/article/2009-12-18-obama-fails-to-deliver" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fails</a> to build an international consensus to do something collaboratively on “climate change.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite a personal appeal, Obama <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-02/politics/denmark.olympics.obama_1_michelle-obama-senior-adviser-david-axelrod-white-house?_s=PM:POLITICS" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">does not</a> deliver the Olympics to Chicago. Brazil wins the bid for 2016.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Obama once said, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.“</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama dismissed Republican attacks on the massive size of the stimulus by <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18482.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">saying</a>, “What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once remarked about disgraced, defunded, and disbanded community organization ACORN as,“I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Former SEIU chief Andy Stern’s association with the Alinskyite “<a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/DL_Adams/Saul_Alinsky_and_the_Rise_of_Amorality_in_American_Politics/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">radical pragmatist</a>” community organizer Barack Obama run long and deep: <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin081209.php3" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Obama gushed</a> about the SEIU, “We look after each other!” during his campaign, which was funded by the union to the tune of $60 million. Stern unashamedly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSllsTLkBsw" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spouts</a> Marxist rhetoric and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204630904577056490023451980.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admires</a> China.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Post-election, Stern was the most <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/30/seius-stern-tops-white-house-visitor-list/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">frequent visitor</a> to the White House.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">That <a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/02/22/afl-cios-trumka-talks-to-the-white-house-every-day-visits-twice-a-week/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">title</a> was taken over by Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO. Trumka <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lv5DpBx2Tg4" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">publicly</a> expressed “solidarity” with Marxists and other socialists (and interestingly <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2010/0902/AFL-CIO-president-to-Sarah-Palin-Change-or-be-linked-with-McCarthyism" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blasted</a> Sarah Palin for being McCarthyist).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before Obama gave a Labor Day <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/james-hoffas-full-take-these-sons-of-bitches-out-quote-everybody-heres-got-a-vote/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">speech</a>, Teamster’s president James Hoffa Jr. <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/William+James+Hoffa+Jr/articles/PX8bEiBH3-G/Teamsters+President+Jimmy+Hoffa+Jr+Says+President" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>, “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.” Obama later said nothing about the incendiary language.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021413-503544.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">remarked</a> before the 2010 Congressional elections, ”If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our <em>enemies</em>, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ – if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election – then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once said of his white grandmother, “The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a <em>typical white person</em> who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away, and that sometimes comes out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama infamously said of Christian conservatives, “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em><a data-group-id="0" data-skim-creative="10003" data-skim-product="0" data-skimwords-id="1763402" data-skimwords-word="newsweek" href="http://www.newsweek.com/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shopping link added by SkimWords">Newsweek</a></em> columnist Jonathan Alter, in a <a href="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpps/news/obama-calls-tea-party-tea-bagger-book-dpgoha-20100505-fc_7388609" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">book</a> favorable to Obama, said the president referred to the tea party constituents in terms of the sexual epithet “<a href="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpps/news/obama-calls-tea-party-tea-bagger-book-dpgoha-20100505-fc_7388609" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">teabaggers</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama then mocked the tea party publicly by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjnJzNBka8o" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">demonstrably</a> characterizing them as, “waiving their tea bags around.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the Occupy Wall Street movement appeared, Obama expressed <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/06/obama-empathizes-anti-wall-st-protests/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">empathy</a> with the protesters. The Occupy Wall Street movement <a href="http://occupywallst.org/article/who_we_are/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">compared itself</a> to the Arab Spring.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama then <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-compares-occupy-wall-st-to-tea-party-i-understand-the-frustrations/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">compared</a> the Occupy Wall Street movement to the tea party. While the Occupy movement led to <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/occupy-wall-st-hits-new-milestone-5000-arrests" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">thousands</a> of arrests, the tea party caused no known arrests.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama admitted to smoking marijuana. He said, “I did. It’s not something that I’m proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to — I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama as cited in <em>Dreams from My Father</em>, “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack [heroin] though.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While on the campaign trail, Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>, “I’ve now been in 57 states—I think one left to go.” Obviously, there are only 50 states.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On one occasion, Obama accentuated his 57 states gaffe, “I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/barack-obama-wa.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">57 states</a> today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh.” At that point, his advisers led him away.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">There aren’t 57 U.S. states, but there are coincidentally 57 Muslim states. Obama once said of the religion, “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the Egyptian uprising, President Obama wielded diplomacy to <a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/obama-in-talks-to-force-immediate-mubarak-resignation" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">force out</a> that country’s strongman Hosni Mubarak.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Egypt’s parliamentary <a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Egypts-Muslim-Brotherhood-Party-Wins-Sweeping-Victory-in-Parliamentary-Election-137817423.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">elections</a> brought to power the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, and the hardline Islamist Al Nur party placed second.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Women represent <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/islamists-win-egyptian-elections-women-marginalized.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">less than 2%</a> of the parliamentary seats, not surprising in a country where women had been <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075683/Egypt-violence-Female-protesters-brutally-beaten-metal-poles-vicious-soldiers.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">beaten</a> in the streets by the police, and CBS’ news correspondent <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/15/us-egypt-journalists-idUSTRE71E76I20110215" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lara Logan</a> was brutally gang raped (though its network gave the event scant coverage). The Obama administration offered<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/11/30/obama-administration-offers-praise-for-egyptian-election" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">praise</a> for the Egyptian elections.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s signature program, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), referred to colloquially as “Obamacare,” was signed into law in March 2010. According to CNN, <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/22/new-cnn-poll-59-oppose-obamacare/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">public opposition</a> at the time was 59%, or nearly six out of ten adults surveyed. All Republicans in the House and Senate opposed and voted against the passage of the bill.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Republicans were opposed to the bill and the possibility of a filibuster loomed (with the aid of any one Democrat or Independent Senator), President Obama <a href="http://mydd.com/2009/7/21/obama-still-open-to-using-reconciliation-process" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">supported</a> the so-called nuclear option of “reconciliation,” a budget gimmick that would have seen the bill “passed” despite legitimate levels of opposition.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama on bipartisanship in <em>The Audacity of Hope</em>: “Genuine bipartisanship, though, assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained – by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate – to negotiate in good faith.” (131)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president once even tried to <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2009/07/the_bipartisan_divide.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">redefine</a> “bipartisanship” as not measured by the amount of opposition party support or number of votes for a bill, but rather by the “ideas” contributed to a bill by the other party.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama promised that passage of the PPACA would reduce overall healthcare expenditures. As reported by the AP, the plan will <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-22-health-care-costs_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cost</a> at least a trillion dollars over ten years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In order to make the plan “deficit neutral,” as meeting the PAYGO rule, the bill had to <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/01/obamacare-and-the-budget-playing-games-with-numbers" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">offset</a> six years of “benefits” with ten years of taxes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HE-rGGKksQ" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">vowed</a> to those making less than $250,000 a year, “You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He also said, “I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Another quote: “I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In just one year under Obama, the Democrats <a href="http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=180917" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">passed</a> nearly $700 billion in tax increases, including nearly $480 billion related to Obamacare.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama, an admitted smoker who has <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6255658-503544.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">failed</a> to quit, passed a cigarette tax that would raise a projected $65 billion over ten years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/10/mccain-snooki-obama-tanning_n_608470.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">criticized</a> by Jersey Shore quasi-star Snooki and Senator John McCain, Obama passed a 10% tax on UV tanning beds.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president passed a 40% excise tax on premium or “cadillac” health insurance plans.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He also signed onto a 2.3% excise tax on certain medical devices, driving up their costs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When selling the Obamacare plan, the president assured seniors that their Medicare was safe. But Medicare’s chief actuary <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/29/obamacares-broken-promises/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a> that parts A & B would be slashed by nearly one trillion dollars in the first ten years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president also eliminated “deductions allocable to Medicare Part D,” costing those recipients $4.5 billion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama promised the passage of the PPACA would lower premiums. But even the CBO estimated that<a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/obamacare-increases-health-insurance-premiums" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">premiums</a> would necessarily skyrocket. And <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/obamacare-increases-health-insurance-premiums" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">they did</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/01/obamacare-and-the-budget-playing-games-with-numbers" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">relayed</a> by the <em>Heritage Foundation</em>, “Another source of double-counted savings is the CLASS Act, which creates a new, federally run long-term care insurance program. Beneficiaries will begin paying premiums in 2011 but will not receive benefits for five years. This frontloads revenue and creates the illusion of $70 billion to pay for new spending under PPACA.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama later <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-15/news/30303653_1_long-term-care-health-care-law-community-living-assistance-services" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dropped</a> the long-term health insurance provision from the PPACA, once again targeting the elderly and the fragile with his cuts. More sensible would be phasing out such entitlements so people can plan ahead and provide for their own retirements.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama and the Democrats even had the temerity to claim that Obamacare would <a href="http://http//blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/obamacare-gimmicks.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reduce</a> the deficit by $124 billion over ten years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">It is a <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-has-now-increased-debt-more-all-presidents-george-washington-through-george-hw" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fact</a> that President Obama has added more debt to the United States budget than all other presidents combined.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to<em></em> a number of other news sources, the National Debt <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/5-trillion-man-debt-has-increased-under-obama-502776147648456" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">increased</a> more than $5 trillion under Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mr. Obama blamed the spending overrun on Bush’s unfunded wars and his tax cuts that were not “paid for.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama later signed on to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026069-503544.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">extending</a> the Bush tax cuts.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In February 2009, Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SaQUU2ZL6D8" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> he would cut the deficit in half.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Under Obama, the Democrats <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/12/05/more_than_950_days_since_senate_democrats_passed_a_budget" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">never</a> passed a budget, even though it is a core Congressional responsibility. Although Democrats blamed the Republicans for “obstructionism,” the Democrats had the majority in the House and the required super majority in the Senate to pass a budget over any opposition. A budget can even be passed using reconciliation, because of special rules. We are over 1,000 days without an official budget.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama promised that under the PPACA, people would be able to retain their satisfactory plans. Yet even advocates of the proposal <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=142CBE3B-18FE-70B2-A82B15071E682918" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">conceded</a> that part-time workers could be forced off of insurance plans until 2014.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/29/obamacares-broken-promises/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by the <em>Daily Caller</em>: “President Obama promised small businesses that they would receive tax credits to help alleviate the large premium costs in the bill. The Small Business Tax Credit is supposed to be the primary tool for doing this. But not only is the tax credit uselessly small — the(CBO) estimates that it will only affect 12 percent of people in the small-group market — but it ends in 2017.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama also claimed that health care premiums would <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUd-slJc-GY&feature=player_embedded" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">decline</a> by “3000%.” He then went on to say that people should then get a raise.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/white-house-denies-death-panels-policy-defends-end-of-life-planning/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">denied</a> the existence of any “death panel” in Obamacare, otherwise referred to as “end of life planning.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Americans for Tax Reform mentions a key provision in Obamacare called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Charged with controlling health care costs, IPAB consists of 15 full-time members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for six-year terms. Their goal is to reduce Medicare spending when the five-year outlook for the average growth rate in Medicare per beneficiary is projected to exceed target growth rates. IPAB is prohibited from “rationing” care, increasing taxes, changing Medicare benefits or eligibility, increasing beneficiary premiums and cost-sharing requirements, or reducing low-income subsidies under Medicare Part D. With certain other limitations on spending, the 15-bureaucrat board may pull upon a variety of Medicare cuts, such as physician reimbursement rates under Medicare Part B.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">IPAB has been described by Republicans as a “death panel,” and the drafter of a bill referring to it in such stark terms, Phil Roe, was even able to garner the <a href="http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/10003-barney-frank-cosponsors-bill-to-repeal-medicare-rationing-board" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">co-sponsorship</a> of retiring liberal Senator Barney Frank. As Roe explained, ““Basically, there’s a certain amount of money that’s allocated for Medicare spending each year. Once you hit that amount that’s been appropriated, this board, this bureaucratically appointed board, can then decide, not based on quality or need, but based on strictly cost.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obamacare <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-ends-construction-doctor-owned-hospitals_525950.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">outlawed</a> new construction of physician-owned hospitals, costing up to 25,000 new jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">One bit of sleighthand the Democrats pulled was the so-called “<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70409_Page2.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">doc fix</a>,” which is the Sustainable Growth Formula used to link physician costs, Medicare enrollment, and GDP. The Obamacare plan led to major cuts across the board for Medicare payments, leading to more doctors <a href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/8177988/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refusing</a> Medicare payments.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Forty percent of doctors <a href="http://thedebtweowe.com/obamacare-nightmare-40-percent-of-all-u-s-doctors-plan-to-bail-out-of-the-profession-over-the-next-three-years" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">polled</a> plan to leave their practices by the time Obamacare goes into effect in 2014.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While selling Obamacare, the president said that the proposal would eliminate half a billion dollars in Medicare waste and fraud. Not only is this impossible, due to the way the figure was based on double-counting, but why would such waste and fraud be allowed to continue regardless of if Obamacare were passed?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In a fleeting moment of honesty, Obama said, “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies [<em>sic</em>] to our health care system.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While Obama consistently cited the escalating healthcare costs as a reason for the PPACA, some of the highest in the Western world, he failed to <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2010/11/22/obamacares_rationing_blueprint" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mention</a> that nearly half of all healthcare spending in the United States comes through the government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has golfed at least 92 times as president, far more than any other president in U.S. history.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On April 9th, 2009 the president said, “We will not rest until we reach a day when not a single veteran falls into homelessness.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On May 11th, 2009 the president said, “I will not rest until the dream of health care reform is finally achieved in the United States of America.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On November 2nd, 2009 the president said, “We will not rest until we are succeeding in generating the jobs that this economy needs.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On November 23rd, 2009 the president said, “I will not rest until business are investing again, and businesses are hiring again.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On January 28, 2010 the president said, “We will not rest until we build an economy that’s ready for America’s future.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On March 5th, 2010 the president said, “I’m not gonna rest and my administration is not gonna rest in our efforts to help people who are looking to find a job.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On May 26th, 2010 the president said, “We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment is repaired and the clean up is complete.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On July 8th, 2010 the president said, “My administration will not rest until every American who is able and ready and willing to work can find a job.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.endhomelessness.org/section/policy/legislative_updates/homeless_vets_legislation" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">signed</a> a bill for almost a billion dollars for homeless veterans at the end of 2011. Despite billions spent on programs to end homelessness that kept the rate nearly even, the <em>Huffington Post</em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/homeless-rate-rise-stimulus-study_n_1213952.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">conceded</a> that homeless rates are ready to rise.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As of April 2010, 1.2 million households had <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36231884/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/t/study-million-households-lost-recession/#.Tx2f9_nEOUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lost</a> their homes under Obama. In 2010, there were 2.87 million foreclosures, a record-setting year that was 2% above 2009′s. Widely reported foreclosure projections for 2012 cite a possibility of <em>ten million</em><a href="http://www.mainstreet.com/print/17180" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">more</a> this year.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">More than a third of Americans have “<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/11/news/economy/middle_class_mobility/index.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dropped out</a>” of the middle class, according to traditional standards.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The unemployment rate for age 20-24 is officially 14.4%, far above the 8.5% figure used in government statistics.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">If one factors in the labor participation rate, the <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/real-jobless-rate-114-realistic-labor-force-participation-rate" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">jobless rate</a> is around 11.4%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2010, CNN reported that already 8 million jobs had been <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/02/news/economy/jobs_gone_forever/index.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">destroyed</a>, perhaps “forever.” Compare with the <a href="http://usbudget.blogspot.com/2008/05/are-52-months-of-job-growth-under-bush.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">52 weeks</a> of job growth under President Bush after his tax cuts went into effect.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite programs meant to put blacks and other minorities into houses, the levels of black home ownership are in <a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=131361753093852000" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">free fall</a>, due partly to surging unemployment.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Black unemployment is <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/06/news/economy/black_unemployment_rate/index.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">double</a> the level for whites under Obama at nearly 16%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The U.S.’ Gross Domestic Product <a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">continues</a> to be anemic. Eleven out of fourteen quarters under Obama have been below two percent growth.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While president Obama had consistently insisted that stimulus payments would go to “shovel ready” projects, he later reversed himself and claimed there were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019468-503544.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">no such thing</a> as “shovel ready” projects.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama even joked about the deception, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O55aRrvXtio" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stating</a> with a grin that “shovel-ready was not as shovel ready as we expected.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While on the campaign trail, Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQNkVmdicvA&feature=related" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> he could halt the rise of the oceans.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2012, “promise kept”: global sea levels have shown a significant drop, <a href="http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2011/09/promise-kept-sea-levels-fall-under.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">putting the lie</a> to the Al Gore-led <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claims</a> that manmade global warming would lead to widespread coastal flooding.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/30/wapo-reports-on-obama-selma-kennedy-birth-myth/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">based on</a><em>Washington Post</em> reporting, Obama’s claim at his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=95KC7CF5B9E" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Selma speech</a> that Kennedy’s generosity led indirectly to his birth, would imply that he was born in 1961 and not in 1965.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://obamalies.net/obamas-father-served-in-wwii.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says</a> in a speech that his father served in World War II. Since his father was only 9, and not yet a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9610.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marxist</a> (as reported by Politico), Obama must have meant his grandfather, who did serve.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama <a href="http://obamalies.net/obama-lies-about-auschwitz.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stated</a> on more than one occasion that his grandfather helped liberate Jews at Auschwitz. The Russians liberated the Jews at Auschwitz.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oFz_Rm4YnPU" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">speech</a> given in 2011, Obama said that Hawaii was a part of Asia.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once <a href="http://obamalies.net/obama-confused-motto.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> the U.S. motto was <em>E <a data-group-id="24536210" data-skim-creative="20004" data-skim-product="209302930" data-skimwords-id="209302930" data-skimwords-word="pluribus%20unum" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA06J02H0226" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shopping link added by SkimWords">pluribus unum</a></em>, or “out of many one.” The national motto as enacted by law in 1956 is actually “In God We Trust.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama leaves “by their Creator” out of his citation of the Declaration of Independence at a Hispanic Caucus <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR61uTGTFoM" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">speech</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When confronted by a girl about Obama’s favorite player on his beloved Chicago White Sox team, the president <a href="http://obamalies.net/obama-lies-even-about-sports.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cannot name</a> a single player.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once denied that he would use signing statements while in office, like Bush did. Of course, this was a <a href="http://obamalies.net/obama-lies-about-signing-statements.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lie</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/us/politics/22pledge.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by the <em>NY Times</em>, President Obama broke his campaign pledge regularly that all bills would be posted online before they would be voted on.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">It is unclear how many times Obama said, “Let me be clear.” But it is clearly <a href="http://obamalies.net/how-many-times-has-obama-said-let-me-be-clear.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dozens</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama confessed that change had turned out to be “a lot tougher than expected” at a speech in San Francisco.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-admits-not-as-trendy-to-be-a-supporter-as-it-was-in-2008/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admitted</a> that it was “not as trendy” in late 2011 to be a supporter as it was in 2008.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/oct/03/obama-underdog-not-better-off" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">also admitted</a> that Americans were not better off than they were four years ago.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As recently <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iKRAJiVClN90jlDrq1tV-wKQRbKw?docId=0b5cc2fc3a964c11895d68aa92a15532" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by the AP, “And rarely has Obama’s rhetoric as president reached as high as the lofty promises of his campaign, when he pledged to change the very way Washington does business and remake politics itself. It’s a far cry from those promises of change to the ambition of meeting monthly with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders — but even that relatively modest goal, from Obama’s 2010 State of the Union, went unfulfilled.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Even the politically suspect <a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/05/brief-look-candidate-obamas-2008-campaign-promises" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Politifact evaluates</a> Obama’s campaign pledge rate at 24%. Thus, three out of every four pledges were either baseless, naive, or lies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Under Obama, Americans’ fear of big government approached an all-time high. According to <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/Fear-Big-Government-Near-Record-Level.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gallup</a>, citizens’ feared big government at a clip of 64%, more than big business at 26%, and big labor at 8%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Recent <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/direction_of_country-902.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">polling</a> shows that far more Americans believe their country is heading in the wrong direction under Obama than at any time under Bush. Currently, 23% say America is heading in the “right” direction, and 71.2% believe we are going the wrong way – a 49 point gap. The widest negative spread <a href="http://rogueoperator.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/direction-of-country-8911.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">under Bush</a> was 34 points in November 2007.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Those who “strongly approve” of Obama performance as president has <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dropped</a> from 45% to 22% since Rasmussen began polling him. Those who “strongly disapprove” has skyrocketed from 14% to between 40% and 45%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As part of the president’s modernization vision for America, he <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2047110,00.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">proposed</a> a $53 billion program for a high-speed railroad.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama said in 2011, “We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.” Actually, it’s the Transcontinental Railroad.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama is apparently unaware of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576229031304191212.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amtrak</a>, which receives billions in government subsidies and is far short of passenger capacity.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Plans to build a nationwide high-speed rail system are <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/plans-for-high-speed-rail-are-slowing-down/2012/01/13/gIQAngYc1P_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">faltering</a>. Claims that the program would create tens of thousands of jobs apparently neglect the “broken window fallacy” – overlooking the opportunity costs of doing so.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While Obama was making a case for government-run healthcare, he said the following, “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Indeed, because of the post office’s insolvency, it has attempted to make $3 billion in cost reductions. This has meant <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57336477/postal-service-cuts-mean-slower-mail-in-2012/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">slashes</a> in services.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">An ostensible act of terrorism carried out during the Obama administration, the Fort Hood shooting, was labeled an act of “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">workplace violence</a>” by the administration. Major Hassan had yelled “Allahu Akhbar!” (Glory to Allah!) and gunned down dozens, killing thirteen.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The military had diagnosed Major Hassan with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, although he had never been in combat (more accurately, Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder?). There were several red flags about his computer networking to al Qaeda sites, and possible unwillingness to fight a war on behalf of the United States. Such points raised <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-18/opinion/kenniff.forthood_1_nidal-malik-hasan-motive-fort-hood?_s=PM:OPINION" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">questions</a> in the mainstream media whether “political correctness” was going too far.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241513/Obama-Christmas-Day-bomber-We-failed-connect-dots.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admitted</a> about the Christmas Day bomber, “We failed to connect the dots.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Under Obama, the Transportation Security Administration developed new aggressive techniques to screen for “terrorists,” including full body or “naked” scanners and intensive <s>groping</s> hand-search techniques. As Representative Broun <a href="http://dailybail.com/home/rep-paul-broun-tsa-gropes-grandma-kids-skips-man.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a> on CSPAN, these techniques often target children and elderly, and avoid Arab men, so as not to impinge on political correctness.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2009, Obama officially<a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/23/the_end_of_the_global_war_on_t.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> ended</a> the “global war on terror,” instead calling our excursions “overseas contingency operations.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama: “I said very early on, as a Senator and continue to believe, as a presidential candidate and now as president, that we can <em>absorb</em> a terrorist attack.” The full context can be read <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/full_context_of_obamas_absorb.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In an interview on ABC, Obama said, “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” George Stephanopoulos jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian faith,” which Obama quickly clarified.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once claimed that: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe ‘s Renaissance and Enlightenment.” So if the gates of <em>ijtihad</em>, or further enlightenment, had closed in Islam in the tenth century, how could such a religion lead to Enlightenment and Renaissance in Europe from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries? Does Obama mean the rediscovering of Aristotelian texts preserved by Muslim scholars helped lead to the Renaissance and Enlightenment?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama also said, “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the left-wing <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/truth-on-the-cutting-room-floor/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FactCheck.org cannot deny</a>, Obama once said, “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the USA Today related, Obama once <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/08/obama-ramadan-is-a-celebration-of-faith/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>, “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.” This is obviously at odds with reality. Not only is Islam itself bigoted against women and homosexuals, Muslims once sold millions of blacks (and whites) <a href="http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">into slavery</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama also said, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation – at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.” Essentially, the United States was never <em>officially</em> a Christian nation, but this is not the sense Obama was using the phrase. What Obama implies is that America is no longer a place where just Christians live. But the United States was never that, so one is left to wonder what he is implying.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once oddly remarked, “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 – our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama said about having spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances.” Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Just one year into his administration, <a href="http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/is-obama-one-of-the-best-presidents-ever-academics-say-yes/question-1088155/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">academics</a> ranked Obama the fifteenth best president of all time. George W. Bush was thirty-ninth out of forty-three presidents.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On <em>60 Minutes</em>, Obama <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70684.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> that his accomplishments top all but three presidents: Lincoln, FDR, and Wilson.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In August 2009, President Obama exhorts citizens to “<a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/08/obama_regime_ca.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">snitch</a>” on one another regarding any supposed lies or disinformation regarding Obamacare. His website, “FLAG,” actually led to blog-tracking for information related to the program.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2011, Obama relaunches similar program, and becomes Internet <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/attack-watch-new-obama-campaign-site-to-fight-smears-becomes-laughing-stock-of-the-internet/2011/09/14/gIQAspHDSK_blog.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">laughing stock</a>, with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYKRokgX00" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Attack Watch</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has sought authority for an <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20029302-501465.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Internet kill switch</a>, an agenda that has been resurrected in 2012.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president once mistakenly referred to the web as “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/06/president-obama-internets_n_891781.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Internets</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama gave classroom addresses, not <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2009/09/04/the-first-draft-backlash-against-obamas-classroom-message/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">once</a>, but <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-address-to-school-children.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">twice</a>. Some schools made his address<a href="http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Upset-Parents--57270142.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mandatory viewing</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Along with the first address, teachers around the country were sent a <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/obama-in-the-classroom-keep-your-kids-home-from-school-september-8.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">compendium</a> to evaluate their reaction to the president’s message.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama indeed did use a <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/bad-visual-obama-uses-teleprompter-in-speech-to-sixth-graders/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">teleprompter</a> when addressing a sixth-grade classroom.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Kids love Obama: So much so that adults and teachers helped them craft <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=obama+kids+videos&oq=obama+kids+videos&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=37163l40089l0l40275l19l19l1l10l3l0l182l978l2.6l8l0" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">videos</a>, <a href="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/971845/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">music</a>, and other forms of <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/obama-kids-video-creepy-2004395.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">president-worship</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Without my own teleprompter, it is hard for me to say how many times Obama has used his. Countless times. So many times <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19663.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">even Politico noticed</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama without a teleprompter: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gets lost</a>, calls inhalator a “breathalyzer.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president is notorious for his ahhs and umms. One forty-one minute <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0hU1THjuc&feature=related" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">speech</a> given in Amman, Jordan was nearly seven and a half minutes of ahhs and umms.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">James Carville once took President Obama to task for scheduling an <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/01/carville_wh_out_of_bounds_to_schedule_address_during_gop_debate.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">address</a> during a GOP debate.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At candidate Obama’s DNC speech, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yQwufJ_JpA&eurl=http://www.michaelgraham.com/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">massive</a> Greek amphitheater was <a href="http://mondillo.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/barack-obamas-greek-temple-at-the-dnc/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">erected</a> in an attempt to make his ego seem more proportionate.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Politico’s Roger Simon called Barack Obama the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/04/03/politicos-roger-simon-obamas-greatest-orator-modern-times" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">greatest orator</a> of modern times.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Former Congressman Harold Ford called him the <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/08/harold_ford_obama_greatest_orator_that_the_office_has_ever_known.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">greatest orator</a> to ever be president.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Effusive praise for Obama was published in numerous major publications around the country under the pseudonym “<a href="http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/media/mainstream_media/news.php?q=1264617879" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ellie Light</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Near the end of Obama’s campaign season, “journalists” Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMas1bVidw" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admit</a> they don’t know much about the man.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em>Time</em> magazine’s Mark Halperin slams mainstream media for its “extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage” during 2008 campaign season.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">One <em>Time</em> magazine photographer worker for the publication and the administration <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0109/dual_roles_77b981c8-5235-4ab1-8368-a4382faa99e1.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">at the same time</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">An online association of “bloggers, reporters and editors” and “a number of professional political operatives, including top White House economic advisors, key Obama political appointees, and Democratic campaign veterans” called <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/29/political-operatives-on-journolist-worked-to-shape-news-coverage/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Journolist</a> worked together to shape news coverage and get Obama elected.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president once <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23031.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">thanked</a> powerful Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg for his work. “If it weren’t for you, we would not be in the White House,” Obama said.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama <a href="http://biggovernment.com/rshackleford/2009/09/25/pioneer-of-guerrilla-marketing-and-specialist-in-leveraging-the-arts-community-for-health-care-issues-coincidentally-in-on-nea-conference-call/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">utilized</a> the taxpayer-funded National Endowment of the Arts to propagandize for his health care plan.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A former director at disgraced, defunded, and formally disbanded ACORN will <a href="http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/08/26/breaking-obama-dirty-tricks-operative-buffy-wicks-to-run-campaign-unit-named-after-acorns-voter-fraud-factory/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">head up</a> Obama’s “Project Vote” campaign in 2012.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama said on the campaign trail, “Our goal is to have a country that’s not divided by race.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Countless times, Democrats and left-leaning organizations <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/14/AR2010071402286.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">like the NAACP</a>, have denounced Obama’s opponents as “racist.” The president has never sought to correct his party’s obvious tactic to delegitimize valid objections to his policies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Unsurprisingly, <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/11/16/poll-obama-dividing-america-along-racial-lines" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">polls</a> suggest America is more racially divided under Obama than in previous years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama famously <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25310.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> of the Cambridge police’s arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “the police acted stupidly.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A police tape released later <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/cambridge_polic_4.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shows</a> that protocol was followed and Mr. Gates was being uncooperative.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president then tried to make it all better with a “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/beer-summit-begins-obama-_n_248254.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">beer summit</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The beers served at the beer summit, including Bud Light, were all brewed by <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124891169018991961.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">foreign</a>-owned manufacturers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama had earlier lost a <a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Obama-Sends-Case-of-Yuengling-to-Canada-88659612.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bet</a> on a Hockey game to the Canadian president Stephen Harper, obliging him to send a case of Molson Canadian over the border. Obama threw in a case of American-made Yuengling.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president allowed his wife Michelle to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mcdonalds-puts-fruit-veggies-happy-meals/story?id=14159121#.Tx8jUPnEOUk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bully</a> private company McDonald’s until it gave in and included apple slices in Happy Meals.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The left-wing <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">flipped</a> when Obama nominated former vice president and chief lobbyist of ag company Monsanto Michael Taylor to act as his “Food Safety Czar.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At a $36,000 a plate fundraiser, Obama <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025834/Obama-compares-Martin-Luther-King-36-000-head-fundraiser.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">compares</a> himself to Martin Luther King. (As mentioned earlier, he wrongly attributes quote to MLK.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mlk-memorials-drum-major-quote-will-be-corrected-interior-secretary-says/2012/01/13/gIQAnjYvwP_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">monument</a> to Martin Luther King Jr. erected under Obama was slated to be corrected after the “drum major” quote was considered to be too arrogant-sounding.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama once said that the “Constitution is <a href="http://www.blackplanet.com/news/article_comments.html?news_item_id=52486" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stained</a> by the sin of slavery.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Here is what the “Constitutional scholar” Barack Obama (who never published a peer reviewed article on the subject) said in an <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/a_clear_danger_obama_a_living.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">interview</a> before he became president: “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, as least as it’s been interpreted, and [sic] Warren Court interpreted in the same way that, generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. ”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Here is what Obama’s nominee to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Goodwin Liu <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/if-you-liked-obamacare-youll-love-goodwin-liu/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote</a> in a 2006 <em>Yale Law Review</em> article: “On my account of the Constitution’s citizenship guarantee, federal responsibility logically extends to areas beyond education. Importantly, however, the duty of government cannot be reduced to simply providing the basic necessities of life….. Beyond a minimal safety net, the legislative agenda of equal citizenship should extend to systems of support and opportunity that, like education, provide a foundation for political and economic autonomy and participation. The main pillars of the agenda would include basic employment supports such as expanded health insurance, child care, transportation subsidies, job training, and a robust earned income tax credit.” Liu was eventually voted down in the Senate, but he was later <a href="http://stanfordreview.org/article/goodwin-liu-appointed-to-california-supreme-court/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">appointed</a> by Governor Jerry Brown to the California Supreme Court.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During the State of the Union address in 2010, the President unprecedentedly <a href="http://forgottenliberty.com/president-obama-insults-supreme-court-alito/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">condemned</a> the Supreme Court’s decision upholding business owners’ right to free speech during political campaigns to the Justices’ faces. The president called on Congress to legislatively overturn the court decision. Justice Alito, for his part, mouthed the words “not true” during the shameless criticism.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2009, Congressman Joe Wilson famously yelled “You lie!” to President Obama, who had just stated that criticism that the healthcare bill would fund medicine for illegal immigrants was false. It turns out that Joe Wilson was <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/10/you-lie-joe-wilson-was-right/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">right</a>. Medical organizations that receive funding from Obamacare will <em>not</em> check for immigration status.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Justice Sonia Sotomayor was once caught on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">video</a>saying the Court of Appeals is “where policy is made.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Justice Sotomayor also called herself a “wise Latina,” inspiring much spinning from Sotomayor and on the left that people didn’t understand what she meant. Here is the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32712" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">quote</a>: “Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. … I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. … I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once said that one of the key attributes he would look for in a Supreme Court justice would be “<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/02/nation/na-court-souter2" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">empathy</a>.” As ranking Republican on Senate Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions commented: “Even today, President Obama advocates a judicial philosophy that calls on judges to base their decisions on empathy and their ‘broader vision of what America should be’… he suggests that his nominee shares that view. Our legal system does not allow such an approach.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Another Supreme Court Justice nominated by Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, criticized the Constitution as “defective.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">She cited Justice Thurgood Marshall and was specifically talking about the Constitution’s three-fifths<em>electoral apportionment</em> clause, which was born of compromise between the northern states and southern states, and eventually led to the political weakening of the southern states and the Civil War. The Civil War that rendered it “moot,” was a movement in the direction of fulfilling the Founder’s vision of equality before the law, as established in the Fourteenth Amendment, itself a law misapplied widely today.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Kagan also quoted Thurgood Marshall by saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Elena Kagan also supported a lawsuit against the government’s efforts to deny federal funding to law schools that banned military recruiters from their campus in protest of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama also appointed homosexual activist Kevin Jennings as his “Safe Schools Czar.” Jennings had been caught on tape discussing <a href="http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/more-on-kevin-jennings-obamas-safe-school-czar-it-gets-worse/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lewd sexual acts</a>, and promoting books that indisputably endorsed underage sex, homosexual experimentation, and worse. Jennings was not pushed <a href="http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/more-on-kevin-jennings-obamas-safe-school-czar-it-gets-worse/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">out of office</a> until the middle of 2011.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama was reluctant to come out on <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Barack_Obama_Civil_Rights.htm#Gay_Rights" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the record</a> on behalf of “gay rights,” such as “gay marriage.” He laughably said that his views were “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19marriage.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evolving</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president eventually <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/22/138621225/obama-ends-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ended</a> the military policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” making it okay for servicemen to be openly gay in the military.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s popularity within the military has <a href="http://real-agenda.com/2011/05/31/obama-loses-support-within-military-personnel/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">collapsed</a>, according to Gallup.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The administration announced it would back <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/united-states-to-use-aid-to-promote-gay-rights-abroad.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gay rights abroad</a>, including the possibility of using foreign aid.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2012, President Obama signed <a href="http://servicewomen.org/2012/01/president-obama-signs-military-sexual-assault-reforms-into-law/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">legislation</a> for military sexual assault law reforms. Apparently, these reforms didn’t include separating sexes in certain situations, as the left must not consider sex-starved, stressed men going without intercourse for months mixed with young women as a potential problem.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Women in the military are also much <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/12/22/women-in-the-u-s-military-growing-share-distinctive-profile/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">more likely</a> to be critical of war policy than their male counterparts.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama was once <a href="http://dalje.com/en-world/obama-caught-eyeing-up-a-minors-backside/269522" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">caught</a> looking at a sixteen-year old’s backside while visiting with French President Nikolas Sarkozy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once said to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers,”Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do – we’ll do a press avail.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Oddly missing in Obama’s biography is the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/barack_obamas_missing_girlfrie.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lack</a> of any publicly known girlfriends.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The mainstream media in direct and indirect ways touted Obama’s sex appeal during his campaign. This is what one prominent <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/07/27/barack-obama-has-tremendous-sex-appeal-115875-20673683/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">piece</a> said: “He’s not just a terrific orator, he has sex appeal too. Alongside him Gordon looked like your old maths teacher, desperately hoping that a bit of the stardust might blow his way. [...] Barack doesn’t just speak, he jives. Tall, relaxed, supremely self-assured, he strides to the microphone, arms held loosely, head to one side, the top act about to kick off the show.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">People may recall the leftwing media <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/22/obama-shirtless-in-hawaii_n_152873.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">going ga-ga</a> over the president’s shirtless pics taken from Hawaii.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2012, a shirtless Barack Obama <a href="http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2012/01/shirtless-obama-plays-football-eats-sand.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">eats sand</a> during a football game on the Hawaiian beach.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As president, Obama has made it a public point to make his NCAA <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/barack-obama-ncaa-bracket_n_502619.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“March Madness” picks</a>. ESPN ran a <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2011/news/story?id=6222176" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">special segment</a> on it and the NY Times even called his <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/obamas-n-c-a-a-bracket-is-one-of-the-best/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bracket</a> “one of the best.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Legendary Duke coach Mike Kryzyzewski had the following <a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Coach-K-responds-to-Obama-s-NCAA-tournament-pick?urn=ncaab-149023" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">comment</a>: “Somebody said that we’re not in President Obama’s Final Four, and as much as I respect what he’s doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, probably more than the brackets.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has played basketball while in office <a href="https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&tok=CFUGogrKf0VCs-h5Lp3CNQ&cp=10&gs_id=3l&xhr=t&q=obama+playing+basketball&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&safe=off&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=obama+play&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=4d6d004b5db715f0&biw=1920&bih=910" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">numerous</a> occasions. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But he has also brought in a number of NBA stars to play with him.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Donald Trump <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/04/donald-trump.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> Obama should stop playing basketball and lower gas prices. Not that the two things are mutually exclusive, but rather that the man should take the economic issues more seriously.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama tapped Ronald Reagan to defend his support for the so-called “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffett_Rule" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Buffet Rule</a>,” so-named for Warren Buffet’s comments about rich paying a lower tax rate in some cases than those in middle class or working poor.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/ronald-reagan/2011/10/04/obama-ronald-reagan-would-have-supported-buffett-rule" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>: “Now, some Republicans in Congress, they’re already dusting off the old — their old records. ‘That’s class warfare.’ Let me tell you something, 26 years ago — some of you may have seen this on television, clips have been circulating – 26 years ago, another President said that some of these tax loopholes, and I quote, ‘made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that’s crazy. It’s time we stopped it.’ That was 26 years ago. You know the name of that President? Ronald Reagan.’ “</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The AP specifically <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-070642868.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">debunked</a> this meme. Quote: “On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a higher rate, and as a group, they contribute a much larger share of the overall taxes collected by the federal government.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The United States has the <a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/22917.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">highest corporate taxes</a> in the Western world. Even Democratic Ways and Means committee Chairman Charlie Wrangel proposed cutting the tax rate from 35% to 30.5%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">And Obama said at the same speech: “So was that class warfare? By the way, taxes are much lower now than they ever were when Ronald Reagan was President. I know a lot of folks have short memories, but I don’t remember Republicans accusing Ronald Reagan of being a socialist – (laughter) – or engaging in class warfare, because he thought that everybody should do their fair share.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At the same speech, Obama also said, “”Now, this notion that folks are inherently selfish, that’s just not true. But you’ve got to ask them, right? People don’t voluntarily pay taxes.” Actually, you just disproved your own meme. People don’t voluntarily pay taxes. That shows that they <em>are</em> fundamentally selfish.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama also <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23031.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">compared</a> himself to FDR. He said, “I would put these first four months up against any prior administration since FDR,” Obama said. “We didn’t ask for the challenges that we face, but we don’t shrink from them either.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While giving his speech that has been called a successor to Theodore Roosevelt’s “<a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/06/143178163/in-kansas-obama-seeks-teddy-roosevelt-comparisons" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New Nationalism,</a>” Obama invoked Teddy to call for more regulation over the economy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president also <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/16/obama-compares-himself-to_n_81835.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">invoked JFK</a> as a justification to move the country in a “fundamentally different direction.” Not sure what kind of “fundamentally different direction” under JFK the president was referring to. Aggressively defending the U.S. against Soviet communism? Slashing tax rates?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Of course, then Senator Obama compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, penning a piece in <em>Time</em>magazine called “<a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1077287,00.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">What I see in Lincoln’s eyes</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jedediah-purdy/two-speeches-two-lefts-ba_b_1133376.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">quoted</a> Lincoln’s “Labor is the superior of Capital” <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin395631.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">line</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama criticized George W. Bush because he “did not necessarily believe in government as an agent of change.”The president added, “I want to make government cool again.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has constantly used class warfare. One example is his framing of “<a href="http://nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/obama-it-s-kids-versus-corporate-jets-on-debt-ceiling-talks-20110629" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">kids vs. corporate jets</a>.” It apparently didn’t strike him that kids may grow up to fly, build, or work on corporate jets.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The first time the CEOs of GM and Chrysler went to Congress looking for a bailout, they were turned away because they flew in on corporate jets.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In a prime-time speech, President Obama mentioned “corporate jets” no less than five times, and<a href="http://marks-truths.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-obama-and-corporate-jets.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">denounced</a> a tax credit for ‘accelerated depreciation’ that could include corporate jets. Even friend of the administration Warren Buffett <a href="http://cdn.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2011/07/18/Warren-Buffett-Hits-Back-Against-Obamas-Corporate-Jet-Rhetoric" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">took offense</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/07/full-text-barack-obama-speech" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kansas speech</a> became notorious for its over-the-top <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69978.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">class warfare</a> rhetoric.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once said about a Kansas tornado, “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.” The tornado killed 12 people.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama said that the economic collapse of 2008 “combined the breathtaking greed of a few with irresponsibility all across the system. And it plunged our economy and the world into a crisis from which we’re still fighting to recover.” His solution? More government power, discretion, and action.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obamas gave 1% to <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2012/01/24/whos-greedy-obama-gave-1-charity-romney-gave-15" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">charity</a> of $1.2 million earnings between 2000-2004, and then 5% of $2.6 million in 2005 and 2006. Mitt Romney, by comparison, gave 15% average of his multi-million dollar income in 2010 and 2011.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Former Clinton adviser Mark Penn <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-penn/obama-class-warfare_b_969002.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">chided</a> Obama for his class warfare rhetoric, and goaded him to abandon it before his 2012 campaign run.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once said, “”We’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fired</a> Inspector General Walpin without notice, allegedly for looking into corrupt ties from Americorps to the Obama administration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once pronounced “corps” as “corpse.” This is what he said: “One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world – Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The one area of the economy that Obama has stimulated while in office: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554780,00.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ammunition sales</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">This is what Obama said while on the campaign trail: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Hard to take that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">quote</a> out of context.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When giving his a speech in Germany, Obama <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/obama_a_citizen_of_the_world.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">referred</a> to himself as a “citizen of the world.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Obama once put it, “In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president also said, “As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act. ” This was at Obama’s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/obama-prague-speech-on-nu_n_183219.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Prague speech</a>on nuclear weapons.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2010, the Obama administration announced its <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">support</a> for a small arms treaty.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">It was the same small arms treaty Hillary Clinton had <a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/1112" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">supported</a> in Mexico, just before a then little-known program called Project Gunrunner was announced by Janet Napolitano and members of the State Department and the Justice Department. Project Gunrunner was the parent program of Operation Fast and Furious. The operation infamously allowed straw purchasers to attain guns at gun shows without proper documentation and allowed them to “walk” back to Mexico.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Nearly 60% of the guns were “lost.” Dozens turned up in crime scenes in Mexico and some even in the United States. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was infamously <a href="http://biggovernment.com/mchastain/2011/12/14/still-no-justice-for-brian-terry/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">killed</a> by a gun that was a part of Operation Fast and Furious.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Attorney General Eric Holder was subpoenaed by Darrell Issa to testify about his knowledge of the program. Whether Holder is incompetent or a liar, President Obama has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/20/issa-if-eric-holder-is-not-doomed-the-obama-administration-is/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refused</a> to hold Holder accountable.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Earlier in Obama’s administration, the attorney general refused to prosecute two members of the Black Panther party for an obvious case of voter intimidation. One of them was a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The case was widely considered to be a “slam dunk.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Eric Holder has been waging an aggressive campaign against state Voter ID laws, labeling their enforcement as tantamount to <a href="http://politicons.net/eric-holder-invokes-mlk-day-to-blast-gop-backed-voter-id-laws-as-racist/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">racism</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As investigative guerrilla journalist James O’Keefe illustrated, many states’ lax voter ID laws allow<a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/01/11/obama-courting-dead-voters/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">even corpses</a> to vote.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s second Chief of Staff William Daley, brother to Chicago mayor Richard Daley,<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/earlier-expected-daley-chief-staff-231122987.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">resigned</a> after just a year. Daley had <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-chief-of-staff-its-been-brutal-ungodly-we-need-to-push-the-envelope-fk/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">described</a> the first three years of Obama’s presidency as “brutal” and “ungodly.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Since <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/barack-obama-12782369" rel="biographycom" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.">President Obama</a> came to office the long-term unemployment rate has <a href="http://http//blog.american.com/2012/05/the-social-issues-election-really/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>tripled</em></a> from 9.5% to 29.5%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em>Half</em> of new college graduates will not be able to find meaningful long-term work under the president at the current rate.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%, that is because so many able-bodied adults have given up looking for work. The labor force participation rate <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/people-not-labor-force-soar-522000-labor-force-participation-rate-lowest-1981" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dropped</a> to the lowest since 1981.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The U3 unemployment rate, which accounts for population growth, is <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/real-u-3-unemployment-rate-116" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">actually</a> at 11.3%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When thirty-year old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke claimed that students on her Catholic college campus were unable to afford birth control, President Obama found it important to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/obama-calls-sandra-fluke-georgetown-law-student-assailed-by-rush-limbaugh/2012/03/02/gIQAIoW0mR_blog.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">call</a> her as an act of support. It turns out she was a Democrat activist.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama campaign launched a fabricated “War on Women,” which alleged that Republicans are anti-women. After DNC operative Hilary Rosen went on CNN and <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-12/ann-romney-hilary-rosen-work/54235706/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said </a>stay-at-home mom Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life,” Mitt Romney reversed his sizable deficit among women to a statistically significant lead.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the mainstream media attacked Mitt Romney for taking his dog Seamus on vacation in a carrier strapped to the roof of his car, it turned out that Barack Obama once confessed to actually eating a dog. The distraction campaign was effectively neutralized.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At a meeting in South Korea, Barack Obama tells then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would have more “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/us/politics/obama-caught-on-microphone-telling-medvedev-of-flexibility.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">flexibility</a>” after his last election to negotiate more favorably on the Russians’ behalf on such matters as ABM defense in Europe.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/03/obama-calls-putin/1#.T7aOr8WDDDM" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">called</a> to congratulate incoming authoritarian Russian president Vladimir Putin, while Russia was the scene 0f many civil uprisings with hundreds of thousands protesting the presence of widespread and serious <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">election fraud</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In May 2012, U.S. and Russian troops run <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/17/us-russian-soldiers-train-together-in-colorado/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">joint exercises</a> together. In Colorado.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration in May 2012 made the unprecedented move of <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/us-usa-treasuries-china-idUSBRE84K11720120521" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">allowing</a> the Chinese to avoid the bond market and gain fast track access to the Department of Treasury to buy debt bonds.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In another failed public relations ploy, the Obama campaign launched a website for an imaginary girl named “<a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/meet-obamas-newest-composite-girlfriend-julia-a-helpless-welfare-queen-in-need-of-a-sugar-daddy/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Julia</a>,” who goes through life only by the grace of Obama’s welfare programs, and who would languish under a Mitt Romney regime. The PR stunt was widely condemned as insulting to women.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although saying while a president candidate that marriage is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/3375059/Barack-Obama-marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">between a man and a woman</a>, Obama claimed to have “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/peter-worthington/obama-gay-marriage_b_1525150.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evolved</a>” to advocate same-sex marriage legalized by the states.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The gay marriage reversal announcement came after campaign funds were being withheld by bundlers, who have been <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/gay-marriage-reversal-means-cash-for-obama" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cited</a> as nearly one in six gay.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama was subsequently called by Andrew Sullivan as “<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=8660339" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the first gay president</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As an <em>Atlantic</em> article <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/05/obama-our-first-gay-female-black-hispanic-asian-jewish-president/52299/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, Obama has also been called the “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062903997.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first female president</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">And the <a href="http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/israel-2011-9/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first Jewish president</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">And the <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j-BuHCupFGHaCv5NY8cxm8EzXdGQ" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first Asian-American president</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the tragic shooting of young black teenager Trayvon Martin, who was killed by local community watchman George Zimmerman, the president added fuel to the fire by making the racially charged<a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/03/obama-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon-118439.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">comment</a>, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” It turns out that there is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/16/what-zimmerman-martin-medical-reports-tell-us-and-media-didnt/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">strong evidence</a> that Martin assaulted Zimmerman before being shot.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When presented with the Keystone pipeline proposal, a multi-billion dollar project that would create thousands of jobs and eventually lead to lower energy prices by improving supply chain efficiencies, Obama <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/18/congress-should-ignore-obama-and-approve-keystone-pipeline/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refused</a> to immediately approve it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Future projections show a decline in U.S. production and an increase in imports. On March 8, 2011 the EIA <a href="http://www.eia.gov/emeu/steo/pub/contents.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">published new projections</a> that show a decline in total U.S. crude oil production of 110,000 barrels per day in 2011 and 130,000 barrels per day in 2012.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2011, the Obama administration claimed that domestic oil production had increased 10% under Obama. Environmentalists claimed that this proves that “Drill, baby, drill” doesn’t work (as if “supply and demand” is a theory up for debate). But according to 2007 projections, the production of oil under Obama was 16% less than forecast. Oil production under Obama can be shown to be less than what it would be under alternative regimes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The slight increase in onshore production from federal lands is due to lease sales approved by previous Administrations—not the Obama Administration. Since taking office, the Obama Administration has slowed onshore energy development on public lands and issued fewer leases. The total onshore acreage leased under the Obama Administration are the lowest in over two decades, stretching back to at least 1984.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Gas prices have gone up 103.79% under Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Among young adults 18-24, only 54.3% have a job.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">From 2010 to 2011: “Public four-year universities charged residents an average of $8,244, up 8.3% from last year, while public two-year schools charged an average of $2,963, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-10-25/public-college-costs-increase/50919598/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">up 8.7%</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The consolidation of student loans under Obama’s plan would provide monthly savings of less than $10 for the average student.<strong> </strong>“Using these values as the high and low bounds of average student debt over the last ten years, the monthly savings for the average student loan borrower would be between $4.50 and $7.75 per month. Clearly, this isn’t going to save the economy. While borrowers with bigger balances would save more, this is the average.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to the <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BLS</a>: “The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was little changed at 5.1 million in April. These individuals made up 41.3 percent of the unemployed.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Also reported by the BLS, the unemployment rate for women was actually lower than men at 7.4% to 7.5%, respectively. This defies the “war on women” narrative.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The unemployment rate for Hispanics was flat at 10.3 percent in April 2012.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The unemployment rate for blacks was at 13.0 percent in that same month.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The civilian labor force participation rate declined in April to 63.6 percent. The rate has precipitously and steadily <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/07/infographic-americans-fleeing-the-job-market/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dropped</a> since Obama took office with little abatement.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to a study <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-22/traffic-congestion-down/55120930/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cited</a> by the <em>USA Today</em>, 70 of a 100 of the most populous metropolitan areas saw significant declines in traffic due to “rising fuel prices; lackluster gains in employment and modest increases in highway capacity because of construction projects completed under the federal stimulus program.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51651" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a> by <em>Human Events</em>, Obama <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2010-TAB/xls/BUDGET-2010-TAB-1-2.xls" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">projected</a> robust economic growth of 5.23 percent in 2011; although actual growth was a dismal <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/GDPC1.txt" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">1.61 percent</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51651" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">same article</a>, Obama “<a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85391&st=jobs&st1=#axzz1OPNVsvHl" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">trumpeted</a> a report by the then-chairman of his Counsel of Economic Advisors <a href="http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM116_obamadoc.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">projecting</a> that the unemployment rate would be down to 6 percent by now; it’s actually <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">8.1 percent</a>, even <em>higher</em> than the 7.8 percent during the recession, when Obama was sworn in.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51651" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Furthermore</a>, “Obama <a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/mar/08/lenny-curry/obama-promised-cut-deficit-half-end-his-first-term/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">promised</a> to cut the deficit in half in four years; instead, this year’s deficit (<a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2013-TAB/xls/BUDGET-2013-TAB-1-1.xls" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">$1.3 trillion</a>) will be <em>five times</em> the CBO’s projection (<a href="http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9957/_selected-tables.2009.0406.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">$264 billion</a>, <em>including</em> the Bush bail-outs).”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51651" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">same article</a> points out that ten percent of Americans are involuntarily out-of-work, as 6.3 million not counted in the labor force “<a href="http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab1.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">currently want a job</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51651" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Additionally</a>, <a href="http://bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">real earnings</a> have <em>fallen</em> by $10 a week under Obama, after adjusting for inflation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51651" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Also</a>, the average household’s yearly income has <em>dropped</em> by <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/obama-fails-to-stem-middle-class-slide-he-blamed-on-bush.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">$4,300</a> during his administration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">More than 14 million Americans are on <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/34snapmonthly.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">food stamps</a> than when Obama took office. (Admittedly, some on the left would tout this as a huge success.) That is a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/23/west-yes-obama-food-stamp-president/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">41% increase</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As an extension of the Obamacare law that is being decided on by the Supreme Court, the administration sought to make a <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/08/boehner-accuses-obama-of-attacking-religious-freedom-over-contraceptives/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rule</a> “to requires employers — even those affiliated with religions — to provide health insurance covering contraceptives under the new health care law.” The University of Notre Dame recently <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/notre-dame/2012/05/21/notre-dame-sues-obama-regime?intcmp=fly" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sued</a> the Obama administration over being mandated to promote activities that violate Catholic teachings.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president also <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/02/10/president-obama-speaks-contraception-and-religious-institutions#transcript" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mandated</a> that all insurance companies provide contraception “free of charge.” This clearly violates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fifth Amendment</a>-protected property rights (viz., “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although the president <a href="http://videos.nymag.com/video/Barack-Obama-On-Jimmy-Fallon-Mi;Most-Recent-in-Entertainment#c=9G606B03600945XL&t=Barack%20Obama%20On%20%E2%80%98Jimmy%20Fallon%E2%80%99:%20Mitt,%20Weed%20And%20Slow%20Jams" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">joked about</a> legalizing weed on the Jimmie Fallon show, Penn Jillette <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/penn-jillette/2012/05/21/watch-penn-jillette-goes-epic-obama-weed-tirade" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a> that one in six inmates in prison are there for marijuana-related crimes, and that if Obama had been prosecuted and incarcerated for such crimes, he would not be President of the United States (let alone have attended a premiere college).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once <a href="http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2012/05/14/andrew-sullivan-obama-gay-awakening-president" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> to have read a story in <em>Life</em> magazine about young black men who bleached their skin white. So Obama “discovered” his otherness through a magazine article? In any event, archivists at the publication deny such a story exists. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/02/mirages-from-my-president/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a>in an interview, “It might have been an <em>Ebony</em> or it might have been … who knows what it was?” But archivists at <em>Ebony</em> searched their past articles, and none of them matched what Obama recalled.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/05/15/obama-keeps-up-with-kardashians#comments" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">appeared</a> on <em>The View</em> and rattled off all manner of contemporary celebrity trivia. For example, he knew which Kardashian was only married 72 days, and could name an amazing three superheroes from <em>The Avengers</em>. He also mentioned that he watches “Mad Men” and “Homeland” on long flights, when there is time to study briefing books with ‘hours left over.’</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In the backdrop of Memorial Day weekend coverage on MSNBC, where panelists debate calling our nation’s fallen soldiers a “<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msnbc-panel-struggles-over-using-the-word-hero-to-describe-fallen-soldiers/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">more neutral</a>” term than “heroes,” <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/entertainment-us-usa-obama-medal-idUSBRE84S1A820120529" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama calls</a> Bob Dylan and other cultural icons “heroes” at an award ceremony.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At the same awards ceremony, bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Obama <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/05/29/Obama-Gives-Bob-Dylan-Medal-Of-Freedom" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">confuses</a> the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He then <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/29/obama-awards-medal-of-freedom-to-democratic-socialists-of-america-chair/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">granted</a> a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dolores Huerta, Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA refers to itself as “the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, an anti-Nazi resistance hero, he offensively calls Nazi concentration camps “<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/obama-polish-death-camps-comment-spurs-polish-ou" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Polish death camps</a>,” causing a media uproar in Poland.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After Obama caved to Moscow on hosting an ABM-defense site in Poland, famous Solidarity leader and former Polish President Lech Walesa <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2011/0527/In-Poland-Obama-looks-to-improve-relations-with-key-military-ally" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refused to meet</a> with President Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After initially <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574449420327844600.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">snubbing</a> the Dalai Lama, despite the latter being a class warfare-monger who stands <a href="http://dalailama.com/messages/world-peace/human-rights-democracy-and-freedom" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on behalf of</a> “social justice,” the president finally meets the spiritual leader, before leading him out the White House back door <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0219/At-White-House-the-Dalai-Lama-sidesteps-trash" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">near the trash</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before the meeting, the president was warned by America’s big government financier China of the<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-02/china-warns-of-fallout-over-obama-dalai-lama-talks/319090" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">political fallout</a> of meeting with the Dalai Lama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2009/01/28/obama-mistakes-oval-office-window-door-imagine-if-it-had-been-bush" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mistook</a> an Oval Office window for a door. (Maybe he was born Caesarian?)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In the middle of a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/president-allegedly-dumps-israeli-prime-minister-dinner/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">meeting</a> with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu in 2010, in which Obama was unable to exact written “concessions” from Netanyahu on Israeli settlements, the American president walked out of the meeting, leaving the president of one of our strongest allies ‘humiliated.’</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Obama once <a href="http://rogueoperator.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=13203&action=edit&message=10" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">put it</a>, “Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to a Smith Research <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/27/what-do-israelis-know-about-obama-that-american-jews-are-missing-poll/#more-792281" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">poll</a> sponsored by the <em>Jerusalem Post</em>, only 24% of Israelis surveyed view President Obama as pro-Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian feud.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When a November 2009 poll was taken showing only “<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/why-do-israelis-dislike-barack-obama-1.4930" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">six to eight percent</a>” of the Israeli public supported Barack Obama, the American Jewish Congress national director Henry Siegman essentially <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/opinion/02iht-edsiegman.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&hpw=&adxnnlx=1338381350-gIeCPUJTCGE+gnh39ew9HA" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">brands</a> the Israeli people defective and their opposition to Obama’s ‘peace-making’ efforts “pathological.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has long-standing <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125656#.T8YWmsUsDTp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ties</a> to Arab American Action Network (AAAN) vice president Ali Abuminah of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7362" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Electronic Intifada</a>. As David Horowitz’ <em>DiscovertheNetworks</em> <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1521" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">points out</a>, the website called Israel’s creation a “catastrophe.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Abuminah had the following <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/24/where_do_the_presidential_contenders_stand" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to say</a> of his relationship to Barack Obama, “I knew Barack Obama for many years as my state senator — when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time. I remember personally introducing him onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. And that’s just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Abuminah <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125656#.T8YYHcUsDTp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> on another occasion of his relationship with Obama, “The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing. As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, ‘Hey, I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.’ He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The<em>Chicago Tribune</em> critical of Israeli and U.S. policy, ‘Keep up the good work!’”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While at the University of Chicago, the adjunct lecturer and future president Obama became close to PLO-connected professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29934_The_Skeletons_of_Obama" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reportedly</a> were frequent dinner guests of the Khalidis.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At an AAAN-sponsored event in honor of Rashid Khalidi, President Obama is <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226104/i-l-times-i-suppresses-obamas-khalidi-bash-tape/andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> to have toasted Khalidi, who was being heralded as the heir to anti-Israeli scholar Edward Said. Other guests speaking that night included American-terrorist-turned-”respected”-professor William Ayers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The vice president of the AAAN Ali Abuminah <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125656#.T8YcmsUsDTp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">revealed</a> he had a photo of himself having dinner at an earlier 1998 event with the Obamas and Edward Said.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The <em>LA Times</em>, which has a tape in its possession documenting the event, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226104/i-l-times-i-suppresses-obamas-khalidi-bash-tape/andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">refuses</a> to release the tape to become part of the public record.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In April 2009, President Obama appointed Los Angeles deputy mayor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2401" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Arif Alikhan</a> as assistant secretary for policy development at the Department of Homeland Security. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1521" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">According to</a><em>DiscovertheNetworks</em>, Alikhan, who <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41650" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">once called</a> the jihadist terror group Hezbollah a “liberation movement,” had participated in a fundraiser for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6177" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Muslim Public Affairs Council</a> (MPAC), which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama also appointed <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2428" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Dalia Mogahed</a> — a pro-<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=774" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Sharia</a> Muslim — as his <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41650" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">chief adviser</a> on Islamic affairs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The flotilla organized in 2010 by the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) intended to block an Israeli naval blockade erected to intercept weapons smuggling was <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2010/05/160661/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">backed</a> by Obama’s associates William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, and Code Pink leader Jodie Evans. The flotilla was forcibly dismantled by Israeli defense forces, which received live fire from the activists.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the debacle, President Obama <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/obama-offers-abbas-400m-in-extra-aid-for-gaza-in-flotilla-aftermath-1.295093" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">offered</a> an additional $400 million in “aid” to the Palestinians, in addition to the $600 million yearly we had doled out to the Palestinian authority up to that time.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama bypasses Congress and gives <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/03/21/obama-bypasses-congress-gives-1-5-billion-to-muslim-brotherhood" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$1.5 billion</a> to the Muslim Brotherhood. Congress had halted military aid to Egypt until the country could be vouchsafed as respecting basic human rights.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Obama <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/14/obama_where_congress_is_not_willing_to_act_were_going_to_go_ahead_and_do_it_ourselves.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">had said</a> earlier in regards to the economy, “Well, what we’re going to have to do is continue to make progress on the economy over the next several months. And where Congress is not willing to act, we’re going to go ahead and do it ourselves.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Democratic Senator Pat Leahy <a href="http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=5D673E00-1110-4BA2-B305-E66EC8084974" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">commented</a>, “I believe [sending the aid] would be a mistake. The new [restrictions were] intended to put the United States squarely on the side of the Egyptian people who seek a civilian government that respects fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, and to clearly define the terms of our future relations with the Egyptian military.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Thanks in part to President Obama’s assistance in removing former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a 9/11 “truther” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/21/911-truther-leading-egyptian-presidential-race/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">now leads</a> Egypt’s presidential election race.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama the “<a href="http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/05/peace-prize-president-sends-troops-to-yemen/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Peace Prize President</a>” sent U.S. ground forces to Yemen, although he suspended their mission during a period of domestic turmoil in the country. After the autocratic leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was replaced in democratic elections, the mission was reinstated.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama issued a <a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/presidential-address-planned-parenthood/455006" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">video address</a> on behalf of well-known abortion mill Planned Parenthood, in which he stated that Mitt Romney would ‘get rid’ of federal funding for the group. Speciously framing the matter as a “women’s health” issue, Obama had the following to say: ““(W)hen some professional politicians casually say that they’ll ‘get rid of Planned Parenthood,’ don’t forget what they’re really talking about: eliminating the funding for preventive care that millions of women rely on and leaving them to fend for themselves.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to an undercover operation targeting Planned Parenthood vehemently described by the left as being “discredited,” but nonetheless <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDza7WSqhQ" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by local newscasts, donations to the organization could be earmarked as racially specific.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A subsequent operation focused on Planned Parenthood shows that donations could be made to the organization based on <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/05/29/Disturbing-Undercover-Video-Planned-Parenthood-Encouraging-Gender-Selective-Abortion-Medicaid-Fraud" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">specific gender</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Planned Parenthood later apologized, in the process of which, they admit that there are <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/blog/show/planned-parenthoods-gender-bias-problem/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“human rights”</a> issues involved with carrying out abortions. Ironically, the group condemned gender bias and racial discrimination against inanimate (the opposite of living) ‘blobs of cells.’</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organization that received $487.4 million in 2011, recently ran a political <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/your-tax-dollars-at-work-planned-parenthood-releases-ad-bashing-romney/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">attack ad</a> against Obama’s opponent Mitt Romney.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president launched an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/21/obama-campaign-sticks-with-bain-criticism-in-latest-anti-romney-ad/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">all-out offensive</a> against Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, in keeping with his track record of class warfare pandering.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Meanwhile, Obama’s target audience for such attacks, his darling Occupy Movement, has racked up nearly $30 million in <a href="http://pushbacknow.net/2012/05/15/cost-of-occupiers-in-their-quest-to-kill-capitalism/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">damage</a> to “the public.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <em>The Hill</em> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/228795-obama-raised-35m-from-private-equity-in-2008" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mentioned</a>, President Obama received the most of any candidate in campaign donations from hedge funds and private equity firms in 2008.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The propaganda blitz encountered resistance, however, not only from Republicans, but <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/embed/video/big-bain-backfire" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">from Democrats</a> like Harold Ford Jr. and Cory Booker.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After Cory Booker received scathing “feedback” regarding his derisive comments on Obama’s attacks on private equity, he quickly <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/21/news/la-pn-cory-booker-obama-romney-attacks-20120521" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">backed off</a> his criticism. (Back to the Democrat plantation for you, Mayor Booker.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The President lambasted Romney for helping to force the Bain-owned company Ampad to make severe layoffs before going out of business, while Romney was no longer with Bain capital.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Someone who was an executive at Bain capital at the time of the Ampad layoffs: top <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/top-obama-donor-tied-to-bain-layoffs/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama bundler</a>Jonathan Lavine, also a co-owner of the Boston Celtics.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although President Obama has focused on Romney’s track record of investing private equity while at Bain, writer Marc Thiessen has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/2012/05/24/gJQAXnXCnU_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">drawn attention</a> to Obama’s miserable track record “investing” “public equity.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Thiessen cites the case of Raser Technologies. As he put it, “In 2010, the Obama administration gave Raser a $33 million taxpayer-funded grant to build a power plant in Beaver Creek, Utah. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970203710704577050412494713178.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">According to the Wall Street Journal</a>, after burning through our tax dollars, the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012. The plant now has fewer than 10 employees, and Raser owes $1.5 million in back taxes.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Just as shocking is the example of ECOtality (nice name), as Thiessen relates: “The Obama administration gave ECOtality $126.2 million in taxpayer money in 2009… (and) even hosted the company’s president, Don Karner, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/guest-list-first-ladys-box-2010-state-union" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">in the first lady’s box</a> during the 2010 State of the Union address as an example of a stimulus success story. According to <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1301206/000114420411046847/v229283_10q.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">ECOtality’s own SEC filings</a>, the company has since incurred more than $45 million in losses and has told the federal government, “We may not achieve or sustain profitability on a quarterly or annual basis in the future.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) received $98.5 million in loan guarantees and is on the verge of bankruptcy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">First Solar received $3 billion in loan guarantees and is suffering significant financial distress, leading the firm to propose firing 30% of its workforce.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Abound Solar received $400 million in loan guarantees and has stopped production.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Beacon Power received $43 million in loan guarantees and filed for bankruptcy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Sun Power got $1.2 billion in such “taxpayer guarantees” and now owes more than its worth.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">BrightSource was given $1.6 billion in guarantees and has lost $177 million. So far.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Hoover Institution scholar Peter Schweizer reported in his book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0547573146?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0547573146" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Throw Them All Out</a></em>, that an astounding 71 percent of the Obama Energy Department’s grants and loans went to “individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Thiessen notes in the above-cited article that, “Collectively, these Obama cronies raised $457,834 for his campaign, and they were in turn approved for grants or loans of nearly $11.35 billion.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Recently, Obama <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2012/05/6400-first-bain-and-now-conservatives-are-bamboozling-about-economy/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blasted</a> the Republicans for running up “wild debts.” Surreally, this is what he said: “I don’t know how they’ve been bamboozling folks into thinking that they are the responsible, fiscally-disciplined party. They run up these wild debts and then when we take over we have to clean it up. And then they point and say, ‘Look how irresponsible they are.’ Look at facts, look at the numbers. And now I want to finish the job…”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the <em>USA Today</em> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">showed</a>, the actual federal deficit under Obama in just 2011 was $5 trillion, if one disregards the budgeting gimmick of discounting government pension programs, like Social Security, Medicare and other retirement programs, which ran red ink of around $3.7 trillion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to this analysis, the government’s spending tallied around $42,054 by household. The median household income is $49,445.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the nation’s top-selling newspaper noted, “The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?_r=3&hp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a>, President Obama has a “kill list” that he personally oversees.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to a <em>Foreign Policy</em> <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/2012/03/01/how-obamas-drone-war-is-backfiring/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">tally</a>, the current president ordered a total of 239 drone strikes as of March 1, 2012. At that point in time, it was more than four times the 44 strikes George W. Bush authorized in his two terms.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As an affiliate of the <em>Guardian</em> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/the-drone-war-is-obama-s-war-1.1030588http://" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, 535 of the 828 civilians <a href="http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/the-drone-war-is-obama-s-war-1.1030588" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">killed</a> by U.S. drone strikes since 2004 happened under Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">By way of an FOIA disclosure, the TSA has been issuing <a href="http://freedombytheway.com/2012/05/14/govt-spies-in-our-skies-faa-issues-drone-permits/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">permits</a> to law enforcement agencies across the country to employ drones that spy on Americans.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the mendacious “Politifact” concedes, the Patriot Act that Obama renewed contained no provision for additional <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/180/end-warrantless-wiretaps/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">oversight</a> over warrantless wiretapping.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In fact, the same entry <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/180/end-warrantless-wiretaps/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admits</a> that the Patriot Act versions passed under Obama contain literally no reforms to speak of whatsoever.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The TSA has also been embroiled in a number of scandals; including the use of <a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/cmcginnis/2010/08/05/airport-body-scanner-scandal-erupts/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">naked body scanners</a>and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130543/Video-captures-agonising-TSA-pat--woman-sobs-groped-TSA-agent.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">intrusive pat downs</a> that have caused <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130543/Video-captures-agonising-TSA-pat--woman-sobs-groped-TSA-agent.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">frequent complaints</a> of <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/02/03/female-passengers-say-theyre-targeted-by-tsa/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sexual harassment</a> by everyone from <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/27/tsa-pat-down-elderly-woman-told-to-remove-adult-diaper-at-airport/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">little old ladies</a> to <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/4-year-old-gets-pat-down-tsa-refuses-to-apology-for-terrifying-child-73770/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">small children</a>. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/20/tsa-theft-of-passenger-valuables-a-nationwide-problem/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Thievery</a>, incompetence, and <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">insulting</a>, intrusive behavior reigns in Obama’s TSA.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Some nations where Obama has deployed drone strikes are not even officially at war with the United States, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/29/white-house-defends-drone-attacks-kill-list/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">such as</a> Pakistan and Yemen.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president recently <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9278999/Barack-Obama-snubs-Pakistans-Asif-Ali-Zardari-over-Nato-border-crossing-issue.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">snubbed</a> Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari over a host of issues, including a U.S. air strike that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/31/administration_briefs_senate_leaders_on_taliban_transfer" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">negotiated</a> with the bloodthirsty Taliban in a move that would transfer five “Gitmo” detainees to a Qatari prison. Senator McCain disclosed that the deal would involve nothing gained more than a statement issued by the Taliban.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has negotiated exactly <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/05/10/obama-has-negotiated-zero-free-trade-deals" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>zero</em></a> free trade agreements while in office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once listed the issuance of Purple Hearts for military members shot by the Muslim terrorist Major Hassan at Fort Hood as an <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/purple-hearts-for-fort-hood-victims-listed-as-a-reason-for-obama-veto-threat/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">objection</a> to a bill that could warrant a veto.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As of June 2011, the current president was the most “<a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2011/06/obama_the_most_veto-shy_presid.php" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">veto-shy</a>” of any president since James Garfield, who was in office more than 130 years ago.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president averages one veto for every 435 days. The presidential <a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2011/06/obama_the_most_veto-shy_presid.php" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">average</a> is about once every 20 days.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">An online <a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/29/a-long-list-of-president-obamas-accomplishments-with-citations/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">list</a> bragging about Obama’s “accomplishments” cites that he was “successful” passing 96.7% of all bills his first year in office. Essentially, one of his accomplishments is having a rubber-stamp Congress that passed a slew of new laws and regulations.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In the first three years of the Obama administration, the government imposed nearly <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/red-tape-rising-obama-era-regulation-at-the-three-year-mark" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">four times</a> the major regulations (those imposing a burden of $100 million or more to implement) on the American public than the first three years of the Bush administration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Those regulations have been estimated to impose a regulatory burden of nearly <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/red-tape-rising-obama-era-regulation-at-the-three-year-mark" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">six times</a> the equivalent period of the Bush administration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In January 2011, President Obama issued a “get-tough” <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/Utilities/EO_13563.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">executive order</a> on overregulation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As a Heritage Foundation analysis <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/red-tape-rising-obama-era-regulation-at-the-three-year-mark#_ftnref2" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shows</a>, the administration passed 32 major regulations since that time, imposing a one-time fee of $6.6 billion on taxpayers, and an additional $10 billion annually.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The best the <a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/29/a-long-list-of-president-obamas-accomplishments-with-citations/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">list</a> lauding Obama’s “fiscal responsibility” accomplishments could come up with was the formation of more government commissions and the appointment of more bureaucrats to office. (Needless to say, these actions cannot be shown to have had any real effect in practice.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The list did cite the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-the-us-can-no-longer-fight-the-worlds-battles-6285629.html?afid=af" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">slashing</a> of defense by $43 billion, leaving $662 billion to fund the same military whose responsibilities Obama has expanded.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president also planned to cut our <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-the-us-can-no-longer-fight-the-worlds-battles-6285629.html?afid=af" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">troop levels</a> by a half-million.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Chinese army is the world’s largest at approximately 2.8 million strong. As of January 2012, the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces#cite_note-siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil-1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">total manpower</a> of the U.S. armed forces was 1.45 million. This would thus be a cut of nearly 33%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">By 2020, the interest payments on the national debt will be larger than the U.S. military budget.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">These interest payments are slated to comprise about one-fifth of the federal budget.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As author Mark Steyn <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/273876/mad-debt-mark-steyn" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">points out</a>, the interest on the national debt will directly finance the entire Chinese army by 2015.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Admiral Mike Mullen <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=65432" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> in September 2011 that debt is the biggest threat to national security.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The new force posture would <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-usa-military-obama-idUSTRE8031Z020120106" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">emphasize</a> drones and cyber warfare over manpower.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although one needs to know the background and <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/chill-out-about-the-dhs-right-wing-extremist-memo/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">context</a> of the infamous DHS “right-wing extremist”<a href="http://s.michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hsa-rightwing-extremism-09-04-07.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">memo</a> to appreciate its significance, it nonetheless<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/14/confirme-the-obama-dhs-hit-job-on-conservatives-is-real/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> slurs</a> conservatives, patriots, and veterans as potential terrorists without any serious attempt at specificity or context in the broader “war on terror.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">By the time of the Occupy protests on May Day 2012, the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/02/opinion/etzioni-occupy-tea-party/index.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fizzling</a> “movement” had led to <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/occupy-wall-st-hits-new-milestone-5000-arrests" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">over 5,000 arrests</a> and had caused nearly $30 million in damages. The numerous, widespread, and robust tea party rallies themselves have been cited as responsible for exactly <em>zero</em> arrests.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While millions of Americans organized “Patriot Day” to memorialize the dead of the September 11th attacks, the Obama campaign arm Organizing for America remarked <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/01/obamas-team-crosses-the-rhetorical-line/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the following</a> in an email dispatch: “All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s selected vice president Joe Biden once alluded to tea party Republicans as being like terrorists. “They have acted like terrorists,” <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/inflammatory-rhetoric" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">he said</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once claimed that the Republican Party was “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/09/10/us-obama-economy-idUSTRE67O4WF20100910" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">holding the recovery hostage</a>.” As pointed out above, the president passed nearly all of the initiatives he desired in his first two years in office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The 2010 mid-term <a href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/house/big-board" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">elections</a>, in some ways a referendum on the president’s policies, were abysmal for the Democrat Party at every level. The Republicans picked up a whopping 63 seats in the House, 5 in the Senate, and 6 governorships.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The losses were the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2010" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">most</a> for either major party since 1938.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although the world’s pre-eminent superpower spends the most on defense overall in total capital, it<a href="http://rogueoperator.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/the-myth-that-america-spends-too-much-on-defense/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ranks tenth</a> in the world in this category as a percentage of GDP at 4.7%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The U.S.’ projected defense spending as a percentage of GDP is slated to be 3.0% in 2019. The<a href="http://rogueoperator.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/defense-spending-as-gdp-2009-with-45-year-average.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">historic average</a> in this country is 5.3%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The U.S. is already estimated to spend 23.4% of GDP on <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_net_soc_exp_of_gdp-economy-net-social-expenditure-gdp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">net social expenditures.</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">This ranks it in this category at #11 in the world, just behind the Netherlands. The highest in the world is Sweden at 30.6% of GDP.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As a <a href="http://www.usfederalbudget.us/federal_budget_detail_fy12bs12013n" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">percentage</a> of the federal budget, healthcare costs alone are projected to be up in FY2012 to 24%, surpassing defense spending at 23%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">An insurance executive testified to Congress that Obamacare mandates have <a href="http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/06/01/insurance-executive-obamacare-has-bent-the-cost-curve-up-not-down/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bent the cost curve up</a>and not down, increasing costs for clients by between 2% and 3% on average.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The federal budget projection for FY 2013 shows the percentages combined of healthcare, pensions, and welfare to be 58% of the slated $3.7 <em>trillion</em> in spending. (See the <em>USA Today</em> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1http://" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">article</a> showing real government spending dwarfs official figures.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Real median household income is down <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/obama-fails-to-stem-middle-class-slide-he-blamed-on-bush.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$4,300</a> since President Obama took office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">$2,900 of this decline occurred during the so called “recovery” since January 2009.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although Obama <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/obama-fails-to-stem-middle-class-slide-he-blamed-on-bush.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blamed</a> the middle class decline of the last decade on his predecessor, real media household income went down only $2,000 under President Bush.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to Bloomberg, 95% of net jobs lost during the recession were middle-skilled jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In addition, 3.2 million fewer Americans hold office and sales jobs now than 5 years ago.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">There are 1.2 million fewer jobs in transportation than five years ago.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Unemployment has been officially above 8% for a record-breaking <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/05/02/Romney-Ad-Slams-Obama-For-Broken-Promises-On-Jobs-Economy" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>39</em> straight months</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although there is <a href="http://rogueoperator.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/more-freedom-more-wealth-for-all-no-connection-between-income-inequality-standard-of-living/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>no</em> statistically significant correlation</a> worldwide between income disparity and median per capita income, the top 1% of income earners <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/obama-fails-to-stem-middle-class-slide-he-blamed-on-bush.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">received 93%</a> of per capita real income gains in 2010. (Obviously, much of these gains were not honestly attained in a free market.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Just 19% of registered voters <a href="http://www.pollingreport.com/budget.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">say</a> the president’s policies benefit the middle class, while 25% say they favor the rich. (Ideally, the government should favor neither.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama, a member of the so-called “1%,” has <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-financial-forms-show-big-jp-morgan-account-213119081.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">between 500,000 and $1,000,000</a> in JP Morgan Chase, a bank that received billions in taxpayer bailouts.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Trading losses incurred by JP Morgan recently was <a href="http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/the-losses-at-jp-morgan-continue-to-rise/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">projected</a> to surpass $7 billion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">JP Morgan had <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304821304577440693850068120.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">close ties</a> with and was a major creditor of MF Global, a financial firm that used customer accounts to cover margin calls. MF Global is currently about $1.6 billion short on its accounts. No one has been charged with any wrongdoing, including former MF Global CEO and former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">One man protecting Jon Corzine from potential charges is Jamie Dimon, the head of JP Morgan Chase, who is a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-s-goodman/jamie-dimon-derivatives-f_b_1509631.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">close friend</a> of Barack Obama’s who works on Wall Street.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the Eurozone is flailing with average 11% unemployment, and Spain is following Greece into the economic abyss, Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has pressured European banks to buy up increasing amounts of government debt. There is no evidence that this maneuver would solve the root problem of government spending and economic production imbalances, as opposed to worsening them through neglect.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The proportion of Americans in their prime working years or 25-54 is just 75.7%, the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/job-recovery-is-scant-for-americans-in-prime-working-years/2012/05/29/gJQAnza9zU_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lowest</a> in twenty three years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.miseryindex.us/indexbyPresident.aspx" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Misery Index</a> for Barack Obama has gone up 2.57 points since he took office. A combination of (<em>official</em>) unemployment and inflation, it is a gross measure of the mood of the country.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has averaged 10.78 on the Misery Index during his term. For context, George W. Bush’s averaged 8.11, although he ended at 7.39.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At a 2012 <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/612258/201205220822/obama-nato-news-conference-stands-by-romney-attacks.htm?p=3" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">press conference</a>, President Obama stated that the business that private equity firms do was just fine, only what Mitt Romney did at Bain Capital was wrong.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president also stated that Mitt Romney’s private sector experience was not appropriate for someone in the White House. As reported: “There may be value for that kind of experience, but it’s not in the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/us/white-house.htm#r_src=ramp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">White House</a>,” Obama said.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Showing a complete and utter disconnect on how a capitalist economy works, he <a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/05/30/obama-calls-congratulate-romney-securing-gop-nomination-0#ixzz1wN7cGJUm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> that Romney’s goal was creating wealth for himself and not others. Needless to say, the goal is irrelevant. When one seeks to make money “for himself” in a capitalist economy, one must produce goods and services that are demanded, hire others for labor and pay them wages, etc.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The lack of private sector experience in the Obama cabinet is <a href="http://blog.american.com/2009/11/help-wanted-no-private-sector-experience-required/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">astonishingly low</a>. At just around 8%, it is far less than any other president’s since 1900. The second lowest was John F. Kennedy’s cabinet at about 28% with some private sector experience.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9301270/Spain-faces-total-emergency-as-fear-grips-markets.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">implosion</a> of the “green” jobs-heavy Spanish economy, the president is <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/608263/201204181753/first-solar-and-fisker-announce-layoffs.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">doubling down</a> on his disastrous green energy projects.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Evergreen Energy received $5.3 million in “stimulus” funds and subsequently <a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/green-death/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">went bankrupt</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s state of Nevada, Amonix Inc. <a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/green-death/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">received</a> $5.9 million in “stimulus” funds and laid off 200 employees after only seven months of operation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Car battery manufacturer Ener1 Electric <a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/green-death/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">received</a> a $118.5 million grant and filed for bankruptcy three years later.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Just <a href="http://freebeacon.com/bundler-of-sunshine/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">one</a> of Obama’s bundlers is the wife of a businessman who received a $1.2 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy to manufacture solar panels. The business, NRG, reported a first quarter 2012 loss of $206 million.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama distributed $50 million through NASA for <a href="http://www.commercialspaceflight.org/2009/08/nasa-announces-plan-to-invest-in-commercial-crew-concepts/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>commercial</em> </a>space flight projects. Obviously, this is not an appropriate use of taxpayer money.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011/05/labor-panel-wants-union-officials-corporate-boardrooms/114104#ixzz1Mne80OBf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama-influenced</a> National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/garyshapiro/2011/08/17/how-the-obama-administration-is-hurting-job-creation/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blocked</a> Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. Boeing was going to spend a billion dollars and planned to hire for 1,000 jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The NLRB’s <a href="http://www.nlrb.gov/news/acting-general-counsel-lafe-solomon-releases-statement-boeing-complaint" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">general counsel</a> then <a href="http://www.askheritage.org/whose-side-is-the-nlrb-on/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bullied Boeing</a> not to “litigate this case in the media and public arena.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The NLRB also passed <a href="http://www.nlrb.gov/Proposed%20Amendments" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">new regulations</a> to make unionization easier. A Heritage Foundation analysis shows, logically enough, that the NLRB rules “harm workers” and <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/proposed-union-rules-harm-workers-and-job-creation" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stymie</a> job creation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Nine in ten non-union workers agree. Union membership in America still <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/01/declining-union-membership-shows-need-for-alternative-choices" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fell</a> to a post-World War II low of 11.8% in 2011. Private sector union members dialed in at a paltry 6.9%, the lowest since FDR.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Speaking of bullying, the President once gave a self-serving thirty minute <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/03/19/obama_participates_in_new_antibully_campaign" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">address</a> on Cartoon Network to children on the subject of bullying, apparently aiming to couch himself as a champion of victims and to direct children towards authority figures.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After a child in North Carolina stated that according to Obama’s own autobiography <em>Dreams from My Father</em> he had bullied a girl while in school, the fanatically partisan teacher launched into a tirade and threatened the student for daring to criticize the president.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In May 2012, the president gave a speech at a high school commencement in Joplin, Missouri, where a tornado had recently obliterated the town. Obama spared no opportunity to <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/how-god-awful-obama-preaches-socialist-bs-to-graduating-students-in-joplin/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">preach</a> his class warfare rhetoric and to rail against greed.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama <a href="http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120531001-obama-huerta.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">awarded</a> the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dolores Huerta, an avowed member of the Democrat Socialists of America, and a close friend of Hugo Chavez.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A document uncovered <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/figures-barack-obama-pushed-wealth-redistribution-at-historic-democrat-socialists-of-america-town-hall-meeting/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shows</a> Obama headlined a speech to the Chicago chapter of the Democrat Socialists of America in 1996, when he was a candidate for state senate.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama recently stressed to a meeting of Jewish leaders that “he probably knows more about Judaism than any other president.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Barack Obama issued a proclamation in celebration of Jewish Heritage Month that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/Obama-Cites-Nazi-Supporter-in-Jewish-Heritage-Month-Proclamation" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lauded</a>Nazi supporter Gertrude Stein.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He also dismissed the notion that he is not fully behind Israel, because “all his friends in Chicago were Jewish.” Of course, this is not just a slight exaggeration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Attorney General Eric Holder, among others, arranged to <a href="http://visiontoamerica.org/10021/holder-to-brief-black-pastors-on-how-to-promote-obama-from-the-pulpit/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">brief</a> black pastors on how they can campaign for Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s first girlfriend, an Australian named Genevieve Cook, was recently discovered. She <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/02/obama-girlfriend-revealed" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">asserts</a>that he was ‘always the central character in his letters in a self-conscious way, with variations on the theme of his search for purpose and self-identity.’</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">An expert on narcissism, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Vaknin, has made the <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/03/whos_the_narcissist_97678.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">case</a> that Obama is a malignant narcissist. Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist himself, said, “has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his achievements?” Obama’s ostensible penning of two autobiographies by the age of 45 seems to confirm this estimation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A Politico analysis exposed Obama’s constant abuse of the word “<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29896.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">unprecedented</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite his feigned posture of selflessness, the president pronouncedly uses the word “I” in his speeches. One New Hampshire speech, for <a href="http://matzav.com/obama-uses-the-word-i-45-times-in-nh-speech" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">example</a>, shows that he used it 45 times.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In that same speech, Obama claims that, “And we know that if we truly want to have long-term economic growth in this country, then we need to start addressing the struggles middle-class families have been grappling with for years, long before this recession ever hit.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Love <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/02/obama-girlfriend-revealed" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">letters</a> to his first girlfriend show Obama was an author who penned a florid sludge of self-absorbed gobbledygook.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s “New York” girlfriend from <em>Dreams from My Father</em> was not real; she was a “<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/obama-ny-girlfriend-was-composite-character-122272.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">composite girlfriend</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While running on the Republicans’ imaginary “War on Women,” Obama brought along <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/Sherrod-Brown-Divorce-Obama" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">alleged wife-abuser</a> Senator Sherrod Brown.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/01/Only-31-of-Women-Believe-War-on-Women-Exists" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">poll</a> shows that just three in ten women believe that a “War on Women,” or a large scale effort to limit reproductive choices, exists. This suggests that the Obama campaign contrived the narrative out of whole cloth.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A comparison of SAT scores between George W. Bush and the transferring class of Barack Obama has led to <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/22/Exclusive-The-Vetting-Obama-Wrong-on-Columbia-Admission-Transfer-Class-Had-Low-SAT-Scores-Grades" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">grounded speculation</a> that Bush likely had a higher SAT score than Barack Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address rated at an eight grade reading level, one of the lowest in recent times. This is two grades below George W. Bush’s average on the <a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2010/01/professor_obama_presidents_sta.php" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Flesch-Kincaid score</a>, and Obama’s track record is about the historical average.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama served as a <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Senior Lecturer</a> at the University of Chicago, where he was honorarily called “professor.” Regardless of all qualifications in the carefully couched university statement, he was not a tenured or full-time Professor, whether Assistant, Associate, Full or Emeritus.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A <a href="http://e.businessinsider.com/public/828855" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">comparison</a> of jobs under presidencies stretching back to 1948 shows that the so-called “recovery” under Obama is the weakest and follows upon a steep drop in job levels.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While Obama was campaigning for Senator of Illinois, he denied that he would immediately use the office as a stepping stone to even higher office. Obama <em>officially</em> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yP6ALFAw3I" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announces</a> his campaign for president on February 10, 2007.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In January 2005, he forms a mysterious political pact called <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00409052&cycle=2006" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HopeFund</a>, whose contributors include Warren Buffett and <em>Bain Capital</em>. (?)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Apparently a big fan of the Occupy movement, President Obama will receive the nomination for the 2012 Democrat Party ticket at, of all places, <a href="http://charlottein2012.com/splash/2011_11_1/index.pl" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bank of America stadium</a> in Charlotte, North Carolina.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In mid-2012, Obama implored to the Democrat Party faithful to give him “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/five-more-years/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">five more years</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When President Obama took office in 2009, he said that he “will be held accountable.” He added that he would turn around the failing American economy within his first term and get the country back on track. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-0ecuS8tWs" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama concluded</a>, “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama claimed in a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/debate.transcript/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">debate</a> against Hillary Clinton that the main difference between their approaches to healthcare is that she believed in forcing people to buy health insurance, while he thought the main issue was affordability. President Obama inked the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_mandate" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">individual mandate</a> into law on March 23, 2010.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2008, Obama claimed in a nationally televised debate: “I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.” Barack Obama <a href="http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/barack_obama_on_sing.php" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> in 2003 to the AFL/CIO: “I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage. That’s what I’d like to see.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJVMWjTQh_Y" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> stated</a> that he would not be a “tax-and-spend liberal” who would blow taxpayer money on “pork barrel” projects. The <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/08/03/abc-highlights-stimulus-waste-funding-cocaine-monkeys-will-other-net" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">unbelievably</a> pork-chocked “stimulus” bill had only an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">estimated $90 billion</a>for priority projects, the rest being literally billions in wasteful pork.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Famously, the Obama administration <a href="http://www.ampo.org/assets/library/184_obama.pdf" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sold</a> the stimulus plan 2009 as a jobs creator that would keep unemployment below 8%. We’re all still waiting…</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration repeatedly made the mind-boggling claim that it had “created or saved” thousands of jobs. But even the <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/10/29/obama_lies_about_stimulus_jobs_created_or_saved_media_yawns" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AP confessed</a> that the created/saved numbers being put out were seriously “exaggerated.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">By mid-2012, the Obama administration projected unemployment to be well below 6% and approaching <a href="http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bush norm</a> levels (5.26%). The unemployment rate is 8.2% and if you <a href="http://useconomy.about.com/od/suppl1/f/real_unemployment_rate.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">factor in</a>discouraged workers, it is more around 8.7%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The General Solicitor <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/26/court-skeptical-of-tax-argument-on-mandate/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">argued</a> before the Supreme Court that the individual mandate penalty is a tax. Of course, the argument was shot down.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before the Democrats crammed Obamacare down the American public’s throats, Obama repeated the whopper, “We will keep this promise… let me be clear: If you like your doctor or healthcare provider, you an keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that too.” As area expert Betty McCaughy, PhD. <a href="http://defendyourhealthcare.com/the-obama-administrations-biggest-lies/keep-your-plan/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">points out</a>, <em>most</em> Americans (exempting the politicians, who opted out) will be forced into a one-size-fits-all plan to be dictated by the federal government in 2014.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama lied no less than <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OD9Fov2_Us" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">eight times</a> about his pledge to broadcast the healthcare bill negotiations on C-SPAN.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-after-meeting-with-senate-democrats" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a>, “”We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums…” Insurance companies subsequently raised their rates, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720004575478200948908976.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">citing</a> the new healthcare regulations as the prime driver.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85762&st=quickly&st1=spending#axzz1wqb0ndUM" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fibbed</a>, “We’ve got to spend some money now to pull us out of this recession. But as soon as we’re out of this recession, we’ve got to get serious about starting to live within our means, instead of leaving debt for our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.” Haven’t we been in a “jobless recovery” since 2010?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before Obama signed the stimulus bill into law, he claimed it would lead to 2.5 million “shovel-ready” jobs. Of course, he realized later that this was <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/10/now-he-tells-us-obama-admits-theres-no-such-thing-as-shovel-ready-jobs/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">off-base</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As reported by <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18128.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Politico</em></a>, the Obama administration promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my administration.” The article cited went on to list several major administration officials with lobbyist backgrounds, including Eric Holder, Tom Vilsack, Cecilia Munoz, and Patrick Gaspard.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While on the campaign trail, Obama said, “We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. . . . That begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws.” Obama subsequently <a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/06/1001-reasons-to-vote-against-barack-obama-complete-edition/We%20need%20tougher%20border%20security,%20and%20a%20renewed%20focus%20on%20busting%20up%20gangs%20and%20traffickers%20crossing%20our%20border.%20.%20.%20.%20That%20begins%20at%20home,%20with%20comprehensive%20immigration%20reform.%20That%20means%20securing%20our%20border%20and%20passing%20tough%20employer%20enforcement%20laws.%E2%80%9D" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shut down</a> the virtual fence program and <a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/politics/white-house/obama-sues-arizona-over-illegal-immigrant-crackdown" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">attacked Arizona</a> for attempting to implement immigration enforcement laws.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president promised his housing plan <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85788&st=million&st1=homeowners#axzz1wqb0ndUM" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">would prevent</a> between seven and nine million foreclosures. Yet only <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704692904576166982594828812.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">one in four</a> mortgage holders saw their payments decrease under “HAMP” and the departing inspector general Neil Barofsky said the program fell far short of success.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-and-Vice-President-at-the-Department-of-Transportation/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">administration said</a> that the stimulus plan would create good jobs and that they wouldn’t be shipped overseas. ABC News <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/green-stimulus-jobs-china-9791423" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> that eight of every ten “green stimulus” dollars went to foreign firms.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/02/18/obama-mortgage-plan-will-not-help-speculators/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Promised</a>that his plan to try to help struggling homeowners “will not rescue the unscrupulous or irresponsible by throwing good taxpayer money after bad loans. It will not help speculators.” Yet that’s precisely what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did when it <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7758/obama-breaks-promise-government-aid-second-homes-and-investment-properties" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">provided assistance</a> to second home and investment property mortgage holders.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president claimed that a Caterpillar plant would be able to rehire some of the 2,400 workers it laid off. Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/obama-economy-2.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">denied</a> the claim and asserted that there would be more layoffs before any rehires. Of <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWaNyeYiD82U" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">any rehire</a>s Caterpillar has made since then, the <em>Huffington Post</em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/multinationals-hire-abroad-fire-at-home_n_851094.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admits</a> that the company hires more abroad than it does in the U.S..</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On the campaign trail Obama said that a <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/30/100-days-presser-the-foca-fade/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">top priority</a> would be signing the pro-abortion Freedom of Choice Act. After getting elected, the legislation faded into the woodwork.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While campaigning for president, Obama promised that all Americans would have five days to see any legislation before he signed it. Obviously, this was <a href="http://www.cato.org/publications/techknowledge/promise-keeps-breaking" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a joke</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In January 2006, Obama <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/2008/02/20/st_obama_learns_the_washington_ways/page/2" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tells</a> Tim Russert that he would “absolutely” serve out his six-year Senate term and would not run for president in 2008.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3304.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tells</a> a Selma, Alabama audience that he had been conceived because his parents were inspired by the “Bloody Sunday” incident at a Selma, Alabama march. That happened in 1965. Obama was born in 1961.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In January 2007, the Obama campaign issued a statement that said that Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago. An <em>LA Times</em><a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/campaign-now-says-barak-hussein-obama-never-practicing-251056.html?cat=37" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">article</a> (original removed) later showed that he had spent time in a Muslim school and witnesses testify that he had participated in Friday prayers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=12&year=2007&base_name=concerns_in_the_clinton_camp" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Obama said</a>, “I’m not running because I’m trying to fulfill some long-held plan.” Obama’s teacher in 1970 remembers that he <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2007/dec/06/ridiculous-stupid-petty-true/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote</a> an essay titled, ‘I Want To Become President,’” the teacher said.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As ABC News reported, Obama <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/06/obama-to-break/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">broke his promise</a> and opted out of public financing for his general election campaign.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/28/cnr.03.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> in a debate that his father served in World War II. His father was nine years old when hostilities ended.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Senator, Obama <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002415579_bolton02.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">decried</a> recess appointments as less credible than normal appointments. As he<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-positions" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">made</a> recess appointments (when the Senate was not actually in recess), he implied that he was acting in the interest of the American people by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-recess-appointments-are-unconstitutional/2012/01/05/gIQAnWRfdP_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">going around the Constitution</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When he didn’t get his agenda through when the Republican House was elected in 2010, Obama<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278069/obama-lies-about-do-nothing-congress-deroy-murdock#" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">complained</a> about a “do-nothing” GOP-obstructionist Congress. Actually, many of the bills the Republicans tried to pass, including a budget (mandated by U.S. law to pass), were held up intentionally in the Senate by Harry Reid.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As noted above, President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay, but didn’t. Yet he actually gave a date, January 22, 2010. On November 19, 2009 the administration <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/5744/expiration-date-achieved-executive-order-edition" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">forsook</a> this goal.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the stimulus bill was passed, the administration made the following statement: “We will launch a sweeping effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.” As Jim Geraghty of NRO <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7544/variation-obama-statement-expiration-date-commitment-forever-put" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, the website doesn’t even have a search feature and cost taxpayers $84 million.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once registered his opposition to a Columbian free trade deal while posturing about the extra-juridical violence in the drug-ridden nation. Later, when signaling that his administration was interested in inking a free trade deal with Columbia, there was <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7442/where-do-free-trade-advocates-get-their-reputations-back" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">narry a word</a> about the continuing violence there.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7424/armenian-americans-trade-opponents-played-fools-week" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">broke a campaign pledge</a> to the Armenian-American community to officially call the 1915 massacre of Armenians a “genocide.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Jim Geraghty also <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7431/obamas-campaign-pledge-nafta-reaches-its-expiration-date" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">noted</a>, the Obama administration said it had no plans to renegotiate NAFTA or to revise its labor and environmental provisions, as candidate Obama had assured future voters.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <em>Human Events</em><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/07/23/top-10-obama-lies/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">relayed</a>, during the debt ceiling debate President Obama claimed 80% of Americans supported including higher taxes as part of the deal. But a Rasmussen poll taken the same week showed only 34% believed a tax hike should be included in such an agreement.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The same <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/07/23/top-10-obama-lies/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">article</a> revealed another lie: “During his presidential campaign, Obama said that his mother died of cancer after being denied coverage for a preexisting condition. He used her image in a campaign ad, repeated the claim in debates, and used the same rhetoric as President when he tried to sell ObamaCare to the American people. But a new book by New York <em>Times </em>reporter Janny Scott says that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had health insurance through her employer and was only denied disability insurance.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Another <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/07/23/top-10-obama-lies/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tidbit</a>: “During his 2010 State of the Union address, and again during the 2010 midterm elections, Obama railed against foreign money influencing U.S. elections.” Researchers have tied Obama to foreign campaign contributions, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">allegedly</a> even from the Middle East. Regardless, Obama’s claims were not substantiated, let alone quantified.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Again, from <em>Human Events</em>, a <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/07/23/top-10-obama-lies/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">real whopper</a>: “During the battle over Arizona’s immigration law, President Obama said: ‘Now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.’ ” But the law directed law enforcement officials to ask about immigration status only if there is suspicion of a crime being committed.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When on the campaign trail, Obama promised to protect Medicare from cuts. Yet the Obamacare bill infamously implies <a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-05-24/news/fl-forum-town-halls-0524-20110524_1_obamacare-medicare-advantage-medicare-for-future-generations" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$500 billion slashed</a> from Medicare.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While selling the stimulus soap, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-address-joint-session-congress" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stated</a> with a straight face that 90% of the jobs t0 be created by the stimulus would come from the private sector. And yet an October 2009 <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/64116527.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">analysis</a> showed that state public sectors benefited the most from the stimulus.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The newly elected Obama once laughably <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=84801&st=&st1=#axzz1VlHebAEk" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pitched</a> that the “green energy economy” (whatever that is) could create five million jobs, even if that meant spending $150 billion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Anecdotally, the above calculation would come to $30,000 a job. By comparison, <a href="http://newmexico.watchdog.org/13834/obamas-stimulus-may-have-cost-as-much-as-4-1-million-per-job/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">estimates</a> of the job creation of the stimulus program are in the range of half a million to <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/cbo-finds-obama-stimulus-may-have-cost-as-much-as-4-1-million-per-job/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gatewaypundit2+%28Gateway+Pundit%29" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$4.1 <em>million</em> a job</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration once ridiculously claimed that unemployment payments create jobs. “The framework agreement extended unemployment benefits at their current level for 13 months, through the end of 2011. … According to the Council of Economic Advisers, passing this provision will create 600,000 jobs in 2011 alone.” Obviously, there is no “multiplier effect” if the first link in the economic chain is taking something out of the system for nothing.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama criticized Bush’s deficits and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/obamas-broken-deficit-promise/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promised</a> to stop deficit spending if elected. But he quadrupled the size of the deficit and there’s no sign in sight of him relenting on his unchecked spending.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When campaigning Obama criticized bills that were too long to read and promised to put a stop to it. But many of the bills he has been signing into law are monstrosities of up to 2000+ pages.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama told Congress that the health bill he supported (before the Stupak amendment) would not provide public funding for abortions. After “blue dog” Democrats threatened to revolt, language was included supposedly preventing public funding for abortions. The Senate bill <a href="http://www.pop.org/content/does-obamacare-fund-abortion-let-us-count-ways" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">would contain</a> no explicit language against funding abortions, however.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On the campaign trail, Obama <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/01/obama-s-achilles-broken-promise-of-bipartisanship-may-sink-reelection.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promised bipartisanshi</a>p. But infamously, Obama’s Democrat allies shut Republicans out of all major meetings on the Obamacare law, with the result that the behemoth bill got not a single GOP vote.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As a candidate for president, Barack Obama promised to end taxation for seniors making less than $50,000. Even Politifact conceded this was a “<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/24/end-income-tax-for-seniors-making-less-than/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promise broken</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While campaigning, Obama criticized his opponent’s plan to tax employer-paid healthcare benefits, and promised he would not tax them. Of course, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/GroverNorquist/obamacare-taxes/2011/01/14/id/382849" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obamacare does</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama promised businesses a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each full-time employee hired. While Politifact rates this a “compromise,” the truth is that the business credits disbursed were <em>not</em>refundable.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration pledged to allow people to withdraw between $10,000 and $15,000 without penalty. This pledge was eventually <a href="http://capitalbeat.com/?p=3472" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">abandoned</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On the campaign trail, Obama <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/257/create-the-american-opportunity-tax-credit-to-offs/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promised</a> college kids a $4,000 tax credit. It turns out that in 2012, the<a href="http://www.college-financial-aid-advice.com/college-tax-credit.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">American Opportunity Credit</a> is only $2,500.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama promised he would not sign a healthcare bill version that would add one dime to the federal deficit. Obviously, the passed Obamacare bill <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/healthcare-law-deficits-increase/2012/04/10/id/435324" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blows that claim</a> out the water.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president showed that his heated rhetoric about passing the stimulus bill to avoid an economic catastrophe was shameless guff when he took off on a swanky <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/02152009/news/nationalnews/whats_the_rush__155255.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">Valentine’s Day vacation</a> in Chicago for the weekend instead of immediately signing the stimulus bill.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama did not condemn Congress for its secretive closed-door committee meetings when drafting the stimulus package despite promises of greater transparency in Washington.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He claimed, “If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” For a relatively populous nation, we still <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/04/barack-obama/obama-claims-america-one-largest-muslim-countries/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rank upwards</a> of thirtieth in the world.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2008/07/obama-announces.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">extends</a> and increases the federal funds for faith-based organizations slammed by Democrats during the Bush administration.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETX1E__iVsE" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">saying</a> “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that every country is going to say okay,” it was later discovered that <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obama_the_hypocrite_cranks_the_thermostat_in_the_oval_office/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama cranks the thermostat</a> in the Oval Office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the American economy ground to a halt, in part due to “skyrocketing” gas prices, Obama once risibly suggested that one way to move off of foreign oil and to prevent drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf was to… properly inflate one’s car tires. An <em>ABC News</em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/07/from-the-fact-1/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">analysis</a> shows that this may plausibly save about <em>half</em> the possible oil that could be extracted from the OCS if Americans’ cars ran ideally.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once ostentatiously exhorted his Cabinet to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/20/obama.cabinet.cuts/index.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">trim $100 million</a> from the federal budget. That’s 0.0032% of the $3.1 trillion budget in FY 2009.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama once filled out a political survey showing he had relatively extreme views on everything from abortion to gun control. After he dissembled that an aide had filled it out for him, a handwriting <a href="http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/03/31/even-more-lies-from-obama/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">analysis</a> confirmed that it most certainly was Obama who filled it out.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once claimed that his jobs bill was “paid for.” The AP showed <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-fact-check-obamas-jobs-plan-paid-for-seems-not/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">not so much</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president said that the Supreme Court decision in <em>Citizens United</em> “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well, I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.” But there are <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/193894/president-wrong-i-citizens-united-i-case/bradley-smith" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">still restrictions</a> on corporate contributions, including foreign contributions.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://obamalies.net/obama-says-hell-save-average-family-8000-in-gas.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama says</a> that because of his new CAFE standards for cars and trucks he would save a typical family about $8,000 a year in gas costs. Actually, this is <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/03/president-obama-says-new-cafe-standards-will-save-average-driver-8000-a-year/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mathematically impossible</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama claimed that the ‘border fence’ was <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/border-fence/2011/05/10/obama-claims-border-fence-basically-complete-its-only-5-finished" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">basically complete</a> when it was only 5% finished. Maybe what he meant was that was as much as was going to be completed?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/heartbreaking-wrong-and-not-quite-accurate-/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shamelessly asserted</a> that doctors are going around amputating people’s legs to turn a profit, and removing tonsils to turn a buck. Even <em>ABC News</em> couldn’t go along with that leftist bilge.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During his 2008 campaign, Obama <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2008/09/23/barack-obama-bill-ayers-stanley-kurtz-makes-connection" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> unconvicted and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers was “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” Not only did Ayers jokingly confirm he launched Obama’s political career from his living room, but <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/04/Exclusive-The-Vetting-Senator-Barack-Obama-Attend-Bill-Ayers-Barbecue-July-4-2005" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evidence</a> has surfaced that Obama attended a local BBQ with Ayers in July 2005. This is in addition to both of them sitting on the same boards.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During the 2008 campaign, Obama made an <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/dec/03/barack-obama/no-mccains-ads-havent-all-been-negative/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">outright lie</a>. On national television, Obama said that “100 percent” of McCain’s ads had been negative. Not even close. McCain’s ads were about 73% negative, and Obama’s were about 61%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/316/increase-the-minimum-wage-to-950-an-hour/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">broke his promise</a> to increase the minimum wage to $9.50.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before becoming president, Obama voted “present” around 130 times. The <em>NY Times</em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20cnd-obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claimed</a> this was ‘not unusual’ in Illinois state politics, questionably enough; but was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">right to point out</a> that this was at odds with his posturing as a tough and decisive leader.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During the primary season, Obama <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/05/david-gregory-gives-obama_n_90130.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fallaciously claims</a> he won Michigan. Wrong, no you didn’t.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Showing this was no fluke slip of the tongue, he <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4167990&page=1#.T86JSMUsDTo" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">also said</a> he won the Nevada primary.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2010, Obama said before the mid-term elections, “”Some Republican leaders in Congress” are “pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall.” One guy, Paul Ryan, could be argued to have proposed partially privatizing Social Security, though he denied this is even an accurate way to put “personal retirement accounts” held by and managed through the government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Michelle Obama told a Wisconsin audience that “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is making a comeback… not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.” Barack Obama later <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/19/cindy-mccain-michelle-obama-in-patriotism-flap/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> those comments were taken out of context, even though Michelle Obama herself provided context for her own comment.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once claimed segregation was “the law of the land” in the fifties in sixties, although it was law in only a minority of states.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president said that if the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” Since the Constitutional law lecturer should know that judicial review has been used before, even Politifact scored this one as “false.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Barack Obama said American manufacturers are creating new jobs for the first time since 1990. This was also <a href="http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/feb/22/barack-obama/president-barack-obama-says-american-manufacturers/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rated untrue</a> by the lenient Politifact.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Another claim: “Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody.” <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/feb/10/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-preventive-care-saves-money/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Also untrue</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2011, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/03/barack-obama/obama-says-health-law-will-kick-millions-next-year/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama said</a>, “Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.” The law was not even set to take effect in 2012.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At a late October fundraiser, President Obama claimed, “I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. … We’ve got about 60 percent done in three years.” Politifact finds this <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/01/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-60-percent-his-promises-are-done/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">‘false</a>‘ as well, because something that is in the works is not done.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Barack Obama claimed the United States has “doubled our exports.” Again, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/11/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-us-has-doubled-exports-during-hi/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">not true</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president claimed that his proposed budget “will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.” <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/22/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-his-budget-will-bring-deficit-lo/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nu-uh</a>. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/24/usa-today-real-fy2012-deficit-is-5-trillion/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Not even close</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama claimed in 2011 that under the White House’s budget proposal, “we will not be adding more to the national debt” by the middle of the decade. <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/15/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-white-house-budget-would-not-add/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wrongo</a>. (Again, according to the left-leaning Politifact.)</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When talking about Obamacare, the president said, “Insurers delayed an Illinois man’s treatment, and he died because of it.” The insurer’s decision was <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/dec/07/barack-obama/obama-said-reporters-didnt-ask-questions-issues-th/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reversed</a> and the man lived three more years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In an interview on Super Bowl Sunday 2011, he said, “I didn’t raise taxes once.” Um, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/07/barack-obama/president-barack-obama-says-he-didnt-raise-taxes/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">yes you did</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In a truly ridiculous statement, he uttered that when FDR started Social Security… “it only affected widows and orphans,” and when Medicare began, “it was a small program.” Yeah, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/dec/08/barack-obama/barack-obama-description-how-social-security-medic/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">not exactly</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As Politifact <a href="http://http//www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/22/barack-obama/obama-says-bush-administration-put-no-conditions-a/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a>, another false statement by Obama was that the Bush administration had been “giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/22/barack-obama/obama-campaign-financed-large-donors-too/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">big-time lie</a> from Obama was that “”The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.” Sorry, you were backed by Wall Street and a number of industries.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama also claimed there were “no earmarks” in the pork-bloated stimulus bill. Yes, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/09/barack-obama/earmarks-stimulus-there-were-least-few/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">there were</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He claimed that his healthcare bill will “give every American the same opportunity” to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do. Come on. Everyone knows Congress <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/10/rep-tsongas-tries-to-explain-why-congress-is-exempt-from-obamacare-fails/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">exempted itself</a>from Obamacare.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">“If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars.” <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/24/barack-obama/obama-says-lower-obesity-rates-would-save-medicare/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Say, what</a>?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In July 2009, Obama claimed that health insurance companies are “making record profits, right now.” They were <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/23/barack-obama/health-insurance-company-turned-profit-not-rec/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">not making</a> “record profits.” In fact, profits tended to be down from 2006-7.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Also <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/08/barack-obama/obamas-wrong-oil-imports/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">falsely stated</a> that “We import more oil today than ever before.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2008, Obama made the absurd <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/oct/07/barack-obama/unused-acres-arent-necessarily-being-ignored/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">statement</a>, “”Oil companies …currently have 68-million acres that they’re not using.” Would that be because of the miles of green tape between them and working such land?</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Said in 2008 that “The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.” But they <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/aug/21/barack-obama/abortion-numbers-have-gone-down/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">have gone down</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Said that the U.S. government spends less on energy innovation “than the pet food industry invests in its own products.” <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jul/11/barack-obama/this-dog-wont-hunt/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You lie like a dog</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Also said, “”Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can’t function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding.” An <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jul/09/barack-obama/no-shortage-of-choppers-for-floods/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">audit</a> shows there was no shortage of helicopters available.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama was caught in a fib that “I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins.” Our assuredly patriotic president did say he won’t wear them, while criticizing some people who wore them and were “not acting very patriotic.” He also defined “true patriotism” as “speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.” How compelling.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama once claimed that strong Republican contenders in 2012 wanted to cut foreign aid to other countries, including Israel, to zero. Politifact <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/11/barack-obama/barack-obama-campaign-says-romney-perry-gingrich-w/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rated</a> this lie as “pants on fire” worthy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama claimed in his infamous Osawatomie speech that “Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent.” This is <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/dec/08/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-some-billionaires-have-tax-rate-/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">also wrong</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama pledged “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” From Obamacare to the GM bailouts to his recess appointments to his unconfirmed “czars” to countless other petty indiscretions, this president has routinely flaunted the Constitution.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The website “Fight the Smears” denied that President Obama was a part of the socialist New Party while in Illinois. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/07/Obama-Caught-Lying-Again-He-WAS-Member-of-New-Party-Says-Kurtz" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Another lie</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Investigator Stanley Kurtz <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302031/obamas-third-party-history-stanley-kurtz" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">revealed</a> new evidence from the Wisconsin Historical Society that corroborates that not only was Obama a member of the New Party, he signed a pledge that he would publicly support and associate himself with the Democrat Socialist of America-affiliated party while in office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During the Governor Walker recall stand-off, President Obama “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303753904577450550752099134.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tweeted present</a>” prior to a humiliating loss for the Democrats.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-possibly-risque-comment-wife-pushups-provokes-laughter-fund-raiser-article-1.1091495" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">drew laughs</a> from a LGBT Leadership Council fund-raiser in Beverly Hills by making an apparent fellatio-related double entendre that “Michelle didn’t go all the way down”… on her pushups.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">At another fundraiser, Obama joked that Clooney had been airbrushed out of the picture that made the “Hope” poster, and that this was the first and last time that would ever happen. <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-11/obamas-lines-at-george-clooneys-house-got-lots-of-laughs-dot-too-bad-nobody-fact-checked-them-first" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Not a true story</a>, however.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In a recent <a href="http://usactionnews.com/2012/06/lol-green-jobs-includes-garbage-men-oil-lobbyists/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">report</a> on the supposed 3 million “green jobs” manufactured under the Obama administration, all manner of positions, from garbageman to used clothing salesman to school bus driver were counted.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-darrell-issa/lies-green-lies-and-stati_b_1143969.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">article</a> that was published on the <em>Huffington Post</em>, Republican Darrell Issa cited that $100 billion had been spent on “green jobs,” leading to little more than mounting debt.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Issa provided the following dismal statistics regarding the green jobs training program: “Equipped with $500 million to fund ‘green’ worker training for 124,893 people, the IG [Inspector General] found they have only trained 52,762 (42 percent of the target), and only 8,035 actually got jobs (10 percent of the target). Of those, only 1,033 (two percent of the target) have kept their jobs longer than 6 months.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Bureau of Labor Statistics is also unilaterally <a href="http://usactionnews.com/2012/06/lol-green-jobs-includes-garbage-men-oil-lobbyists/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">changing</a> the way <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/addressing-concerns-about-the-integrity-of-the-u-s-department-of-labors-jobs-reporting/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">jobs numbers</a> are counted that will make it more difficult for journalists and economists to make timely assessments of their veracity, according to the transparency advocated Sunshine in Government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/08/Obama-Labor-Dept-Forces-Journalists-to-Use-Government-Issued-Computers" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The BLS is also </a>forcing journalists to report on economic data using government-issued computers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As noted in a <em>Forbes</em> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/06/02/obama-gets-left-behind/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">article</a>, a number of radicals have turned against Obama, calling him everything from a “psychopath” to a “megalomaniac” and arguing that he is little different than Bush.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Famous left-wing academic Noam Chomsky once said that <a href="http://www.crescentpost.com/2011/07/video-noam-chomsky-tells-bbc-that-obama-worse-than-bush/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama is worse than Bush</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Two of Obama’s close <a href="http://freebeacon.com/marion-sandler-1930-2012/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">left-wing associates</a>, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877343,00.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Herb and Marion Sandler,</a> were pioneers of the “option ARM” mortgage, which leads relatively poor people into mortgages whose interest payments they cannot ultimately afford.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration had direct contacts with the secretive left-wing billionaire summit “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/the-soros-summit/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Democracy Alliance</a>,” held at the posh Biltmore Hotel and chocked full of radical activists.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Among Obama’s <a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/06/1001-reasons-to-vote-against-barack-obama-complete-edition/rogueoperator.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=13507&action=edit&message=1" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">top bundlers</a> is disgraced former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although Obama couldn’t say that the goal of the mission in Afghanistan was “victory,” he named one of his campaign funds the Obama Victory Fund.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While the AP ran a <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/romneys-fundraisers-quietly-amassing-millions-070246337.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">story</a> whispering in hushed tones about Romney’s secret billionaire financiers,<em>Forbes</em> disclosed a number of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/03/28/as-romney-donors-pick-up-pace-meet-obamas-biggest-billionaire-fundraisers/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">billionaire bundlers</a> doing likewise for Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">This does not even include the Super-PAC funding of billionaires <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/george-soros-donation-obama_n_1499921.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">like George Soros</a>, who can contribute unlimited sums to such campaign vehicles due to the “infamous” <em>Citizens United</em> ruling.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Republican candidate Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/18737730/romney-catches-up" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">outfundraised</a> Obama in May $76 million to $60 million.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In May 2012, apparently haven’t learn the key economics lesson of his term, Obama <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/13/obama-proposes-yet-another-multibillion-dollar-stimulus-plan/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">proposes</a>another multi-billion dollar <s>slush fund</s> stimulus program.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As CBS <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-57387655/inflation-not-as-low-as-you-think/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a>, real inflation is not the modest 3.1% reported by the government, but a cumbersome 8%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Gas prices were <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/30/gas-prices-double-under-obama/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">up 103.77%</a> under Obama in just two years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">This is a bigger gas price increase than under Jimmy Carter.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Gas prices have soared despite Obama <a href="http://votingamerican.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/as-drilling-ban-continues-obama-releases-30-million-barrels-of-oil-from-reserves/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">releasing</a> 30 billion barrels from its strategic petroleum reserve.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama approved of $1.78 per gallon subsidy for corn ethanol fuel.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As <em>Reuters</em> <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-to-blame-others-for-high-gas-prices" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a>, Obama blamed others for high gasoline prices.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When speaking on the economy, Obama made the revealing gaffe that he thought the economy was “<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/08/president-obama-the-private-sector-is-doing-just-fine/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">doing just fine</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Former Obama adviser Stever Rattner appeared on MSNBC and disputed the president’s comment that the economy was “doing just fine.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After the phrase blew up in his face, he <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-walks-back-remark-about-private-sector-doing-fine-20120608,0,1378747.story" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">walked the comment back</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Just a month prior, Obama had made a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI888wtoTzo&feature=player_embedded" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">similar gaffe</a> in regards to the magnitude of the recession that “sometimes I forget” [about it].</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama once blamed the structural unemployment on the country’s level of automation… such as its <a href="http://votingamerican.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/attack-of-the-job-killing-atm-machines/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ATM machines</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The U.S.’ Global Competitiveness ranking has <a href="http://www.weforum.org/news/us-competitiveness-ranking-continues-fall-emerging-markets-are-closing-gap" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fallen</a> from first place to <em>fifth</em> place under Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s Jewish mentor in Chicago was a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/04/Rabbi-Arnold-Wolf-Socialist-Anti-Israel-Rabbi-Taught-Obama-Knows-More-About-Judaism" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">socialist rabbi</a> named Arnold Wolf.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After President Obama helped remove Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/18/egypt-election-muslim-brotherhood-claims-victory-live?newsfeed=true" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">elected president</a> in Eypt.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In a hot mic exchange with former French President Sarkozy, the president said of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, “”You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s Catholic ally Father Pfleger is a left-wing “social justice” <a href="http://iambreitbart.blogspot.com/2012/04/father-michael-pfleger-obamas-catholic.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">activist</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although he criticized Bush’s invasions of privacy, Obama is <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77213.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">compiling</a> vast amounts of data on all Americans.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123423384887066377.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">politicized the census</a> by moving its supervision directly into the White House.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president <a href="http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/11/21/obama-administration-sends-weapons-contract-to-foreign-company-with-ties-to-iran/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sent</a> a weapons contract to a foreign company with ties to Iran.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration compromised national security by leaking information regarding America’s cyber warfare tactics against Iran<em></em>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Senate Democrats <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/230985-senate-dems-blast-leaks-about-iranian-cyberattacks" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blasted</a> the administration for allowing the leak and warned Iran would be justified in retaliating.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Moderate Republican John McCain linked the intelligence leaks, including one regarding Obama’s “kill list,” to an election-year campaign effort to make Obama look tough on terrorism.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Undisclosed Mossad agents <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/06/10/Oh-No-You-Didnt-Mossad-Agents-Claim-Obama-Lying-About-Stuxnet" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">revealed</a> to the Israeli press that they think Obama did it for re-election purposes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Long-time Democratic strategist Pat Cadell <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/10/Exclusive-Caddell-Names-Tom-Donilon-As-Source-For-Leaks" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">believes</a> the leaker is Obama’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Early in his administration, Obama requested that Angela Merkel allow him to stage an election rally at the Brandenburg Gate — and was <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/08/us-obama-merkel-idUSBRE85718N20120608" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rebuffed</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has personally <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/08/us-obama-merkel-idUSBRE85718N20120608" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reached out</a> to Germany to loan economically floundering European countries more money in order to help his re-election chances. (Never mind if those European welfare states actually reform or not).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A study shows that Mitt Romney’s <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/01/study-romney-twitter-followers-more-likely-to-be-american-than-obamas/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Twitter followers</a> are far more likely to be American than Obama’s. Only about half of Obama’s Twitter followers are Americans.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Anecdotally, the Youtube phenomenon ‘Obama girl’ <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-girl-not-excited-2012-won-t-endorse-193610215.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">won’t endorse</a> Obama, and is not as excited about the 2012 elections.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to the <em>Army Times,</em> about 3,000 troops are <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/06/army-3000-soldiers-serve-in-africa-next-year-060812/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">slated to serve</a> in Africa next year.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">U.S fatalities in Afghanistan have <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/us_military_deaths_in_afghanistan_more_than_doubled_under_obama.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">doubled on</a> President Obama’s watch compared with the campaign under Bush.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s religious <a href="http://barenakedislam.com/2010/07/21/told-ya-so-obama-adviser-says-america-is-the-ideal-place-for-a-renewal-of-islam/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">adviser</a> Eboo Patel has been closely linked to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is building the Muslim <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/groundzeromosquetawfik/2010/08/18/id/367823" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">victory mosque</a> near the 9/11 WTC attacks site.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although the Obama administration stated that all officials are closely vetted, former “green jobs” czar Van Jones is an admitted 9/11 “truther.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When President Obama introduced President Bush at the latter’s White House portrait ceremony, the incoming president couldn’t resist making <a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/obama-jabs-bush-portrait-hanging/573446" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">disparaging remarks</a> about Bush leaving the economy in shambles and failing to capture Osama bin Laden.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama unilaterally went around Congress and announced that law enforcement officials should exercise ‘prosecutorial discretion’ in regards to certain illegal aliens. So apparently, Obama thinks it’s okay for him to put the caveats on the laws that Congress passes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s wife Michelle, who is not elected to be an official, has a staff of 22 assistants, who make a combined $1.5 million a year, all at taxpayer expense.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama himself has a dog trainer/sous chef on retainer for $102,000 a year, also at taxpayer expense.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Michelle Obama’s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/26/michelle-obama-spain-vacation-cost-taxpayers-nearly-470g-watchdog-group-claims/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spanish vacation</a> alone cost taxpayers $470,000, according to Judicial Watch.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Her family vacation to Botswana and South Africa cost over $424,000.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A single vacation with President Obama is noted to have cost over $4 million.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In one year, the Obamas <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/president-obamas-lavish-vacations-under-scrutiny-again-153900010.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">racked up</a> nearly $10 million in vacations total.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The transparency group Judicial Watch has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/06/watchdog-group-sues-for-transparency-on-michelle-obama-vacation-expenses/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sued</a> for further information on the bills that the Obamas have stuck American taxpayers with.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama personally <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/202791-hhs-finalizes-more-than-1200-healthcare-waivers" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gave out</a> 1,200 Obamacare waivers to businesses, a flagrant disregard of the rule of law and a patronizing form of power-building virtually foreign to the American presidency.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Labor unions that predominately backed the Obamacare law received <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/06/labor-unions-primary-recipients-of-obamacare-waivers/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">numerous waivers</a>, betraying an outrageous double standard.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama gave <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304741404575564383870852928.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">58 speeches</a> in 51 weeks selling Obamacare.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Despite this smarm offensive, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/08/fox-news-poll-60-think-health-care-mandate-violates-individual-rights/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sixty percent</a> of Americans think the president’s healthcare law violates individual rights.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2009 alone, the president made <a href="http://conservativeoutpost.com/node/5108" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">726 speeches</a> or official public appearances, which is nearly two a day.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The White House also held 332 White House evenings events in that year alone.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to the Cost of Government Center, it takes the average working American <a href="http://www.fiscalaccountability.org/#" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">until August 2nd</a>to pay off the cost of government. This is an increase from “just” 103 days under previous presidents.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The COGC estimates that it now takes the average American 77 days to pay for the cost of government regulations, while under previous regimes it was “only” 61 days.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama promised to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57369731-503544/obama-unveils-mortgage-refinancing-plan/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reduce the fine prin</a>t of home mortgage contracts. Currently, Fannie Mae’s mortgage paperwork weighs in at 120 pages, while Freddie’s a svelte 150 pages, and FHA is a big-boned 200 pages.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Under Obama, federal government hiring <a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/under-obama-a-record-decline-in-government-jobs/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">went up 1.3%</a> total in the first three years, although it fell by 1.3% in 2011. Declining local employment levels has led to an overall drop in public sector jobs. Obama has <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/10/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-government-job-losses-his-watch-/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lied</a> by saying that slowed government hiring in a recession is unprecedented.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The crackpot “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574326531645819464.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cash for clunker</a>s” program burned through its billion dollar allocation in a week, and then quickly bled red by another $2 billion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama gave tax breaks for certain electric golf carts. One wealthy individual bought up ten to trim his tax burden by $5,500 each before selling nine for a healthier bottom line.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/27117" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">promised</a> to “reduce drug use and the great damage it causes.” His administration then increased spending on drug law enforcement to record levels both in dollars and in percentage terms. U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske later conceded the strategy hasn’t worked.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As the Health and Human Services head Kathleen Sebelius <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/17/obama-admin-failures-class-act/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admitted</a>, the monumental Community Living Assistance Services and Support act has “no viable path forward” at this time. The program was slated as a budget gimmick to trim $86 billion from the federal deficit.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In 2010, the Obama administrative <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/administration-kicks-recovery-summer-with-groundbreakings-and-events-across-country" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">toute</a>d an impending “recovery summer,” which was supposed to see an immense increase in jobs. Instead, unemployment actually <a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">went up twice</a> on the way to 9.8%.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Two years after Obamacare is passed, he claims that an individual mandate is necessary to cover those with pre-existing conditions. But this is false due to the existence of “high risk pools.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Has presided over a <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/29/obama-ill-veto-bill-that-will-provide-water-to-californias-central-valley/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">judicially imposed drought</a> in California’s Central Valley due to some endangered species.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Due to the president’s refusal to hold Attorney General Eric Holder administratively responsible for the deaths of hundreds due to the disastrous Fast and Furious operation, the House has been compelled to bring <a href="http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/06/republican-house-to-bring-contempt-charges-against-holder/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">contempt charges</a> against Holder.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The state of Florida has resorted to suing the Obama administration for blocking its purging of voter rolls <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/11/4554240/fla-suing-federal-government-over.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">of non-citizens</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The DOJ under Obama <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/south-carolina-voter-id-law-challenge_n_1262877.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blocked implementation</a> of a voter ID law in South Carolina on civil rights grounds, even though the state added a provision that it would pay for free voter IDs and allow post-voting verification.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Texas has also filed a <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/03/12/obama_doj_targets_texas_strikes_down_voter_id_law" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">similar suit</a> against the administration, charging the administration with showing how compliance with the law disproportionately hurts Hispanic voters.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has <a href="http://www.gop.com/index.php/research/comments/buffett_what_happened_with_simpson-bowles_was_an_absolute_tragedy/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ignored</a> the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction committee.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although the youth vote and activism was crucial to Obama’s first election campaign, pollster Zoby says younger voters are <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/06/zogby-disillusioned-young-voters-dropping-out/717996" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">giving up on politics</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s EPA is making a <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2012/06/11/epa-power-grab-to-regulate-ditches-gullies-on-private-property/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">power grab</a> to control ditches, gullies, and ponds on private property through the “Clean Water Act.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama campaign is apparently engaging in an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157233/Revealed-Obama-campaign-launches-unprecedented-data-mining-operation-leaving-Romneys-team-struggling-catch-up.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">‘unprecedented’ data minin</a>g operation to target potential voters. Whether or not the campaign is relying purely on public attainable data is anybody’s guess.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration is <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/how-microsoft-and-yahoo-are-selling-politicians-access-to-you" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">buying acces</a>s to online users’ profiles from businesses like Google and Yahoo.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president “worked” a <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/george-clooney/2012/04/10/clooney-hosting-40000-plate-obama-fundraiser-la-home" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fundraiser</a> at one percenter George Clooney’s swanky estate, selling plates at $40,000 a pop.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has gone on a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/obama-fundraising-west-coast-sf-la_n_1573518.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">glitzy fundraising tour</a> in liberal California while the economy continues to struggle creating jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama campaign has <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-republicans-rooting-failure-cutter-20120603,0,1034590.story" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">scapegoated</a> the GOP by claiming Republicans are rooting against the economy to turn around, as if this has anything to do with whether or not his policies work.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Left-leaning neorealist Stephen Walt writes a <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/25/obama_foreign_policy_coming_up_empty?page=full" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">list</a> of ten foreign policy failures of the Obama administration. The most damning linkage is how Obama has failed to help the world economy recover.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama announces a “jobs plan” of more spending in September 2011, after effectively <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/obama-admits-to-congress-his-policies-have-failed-the-economy-has-stalled-video/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admitting</a> the previous bout of stimulus failed by stating flatly “the economy has stalled.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">An all-time record of <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/economic-facts-of-obama%27s-failures" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">16.3 million families</a> are “upside down” on their mortgages.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to an economist, the economy has lost <a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/12/obamas-stimulus-failure.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$1.3 trillion</a> in annual demand since Obama took over.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recently said Obama’s economic policies have been “<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/04/16/geithner_obamas_economic_policies_have_been_remarkably_successful_you_know" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">remarkably successful</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to a November 15, 2011 <a href="http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/267/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">report</a> of Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) , the Obama Administration is on track to file 1,365 prosecutions for financial fraud, the lowest number in 20 years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-administration/2012/04/22/opinion-failure-obamas-economic-program" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Twenty-five percent</a> of American households have someone who is unemployed and looking for work.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">According to an August 2011 survey, <a href="http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-2734-Salaries-Promotions-42-percent-of-workers-live-paycheck-to-paycheck/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">forty-two percent</a> of Americans are living “paycheck to paycheck.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Up to June 2011, the Federal Reserve has effectively “pumped” <a href="http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/2012/06/03/larry-kudlow-obamas-economic-model-is-a-failure-rcp/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$2.5 trillion</a> into the economy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Under President Obama, the net worth of the American family has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans-wealth-dropped-40-percent/2012/06/11/gJQAlIsCVV_story.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fallen 40%</a> in three years.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama once denied engaging in class warfare and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-im-a-warrior-for-the-middle-class/2011/09/22/gIQAXK1PoK_video.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">declared</a> to a national audience “I’m a warrior for the middle class.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama is a cigarette smoker who has failed to quit. Mitt Romney is not a smoker.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama visibly drank alcohol on several occasions while in office. Romney does not drink alcohol. Or coffee. No one is quite sure what he drinks.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In one of his many biographies, Obama confessed to using pot and a little blow. Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-hates-when-california-neighbors-smoke-pot-on-the-beach-2012-6" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">does not like it</a> when his neighbors smoke pot on the beach. And get off his lawn.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney was once said to have hired illegal immigrants, but he only hired a landscaping company that employed illegals. Barack Obama directly <a href="http://economy.ocregister.com/2009/01/29/us-stimulus-money-for-illegal-aliens-online-chatterers-stunned/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hired hundreds</a> of illegal aliens at taxpayer expense.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney was slammed in a <em>Washington Post </em><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/10/cracks-in-the-washington-post-story-on-romneys-pranks-emerge/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hit piece</a> for hazing a student who turned out to be gay. Barack Obama <a href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2012/05/10/obama-bullied-girl-little-girl-named-coretta-media-silent/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">admits</a> to having shoved around a girl while in school.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/17/bad-news-obama-used-to-eat-dog-meat/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">confessed</a> to eating dog in his biography <em>Dreams from My Father</em>. Mitt Romney likes his steak medium rare.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obamas enjoy <a href="http://bradleycountynews.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/queen-michelle-attacks-mcdonalds-kids-meals-with-healthy-kid-initiative/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">attacking</a> fast food chains. Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/how_bain_capital_made_us_fat/singleton/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">enjoys</a> making fast food chains profitable.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After berating Americans about unhealthy food habits, Michelle Obama <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/michelle-obama-shake-shack-burger_n_895498.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ordered</a> a cheeseburger, french fries, and a chocolate shake from the Shake Shack, while Obama scarfed down wieners at a<a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/obama-and-cameron-grilling-5806699" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sausage fest</a>. Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mitt-romney-heckles-beloved-bakery-says-cookies-came-from-the-local-7-eleven/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">doesn’t like cookies</a> (but he doesn’t tell other not to eat them).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When throwing out the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ftnSTu-CM" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first pitch</a> at a major league baseball game, Obama noticeably threw like a girl. At <a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtBINv6Y44gVNWWUC3SIOeA_AdmjjRb_pk59dEeVWjH5dqd1_fCw" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">age six</a>, Mitt could already hit a baseball further than the current president.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game, Obama wore both a White Sox hat and a Nationals jersey and drew <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ftnSTu-CM" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">unmistakable boos</a>. When Mitt Romney <a href="http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/ap_mitt_romney_red_sox_jp_120206_wmain.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wears</a> a Red Sox jersey, he wears<em>only</em> a Red Sox jersey.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When throwing out the first pitch at an All-Star game, after being <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/pujols-to-obama-dont-bounce-it.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warned</a> by Albert Pujols “not to bounce it,” he decides to wear <a href="http://cdn.pophangover.com/wp-content/uploads/obama-mom-jeans.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mom jeans</a>. On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.underthegoldendome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/20110720_105135_do20-mitt-romney.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wears Dockers</a> (and he requires his staff to do likewise).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During an interview with Bob Costas, Obama mispronounced Comiskey Park as “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUhulaRzpU" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kaminsky Park</a>.” Romney not only goes to Fenway Park, he knows how to say it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">It is <a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/05/did-white-house-doctor-photo-of.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">not clear</a> whether or not Barack Obama knows how to properly throw a football. Mitt Romney not only knows how to play football, he <a href="http://kimoracochran.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Barack-Obama-Playing-Football.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">doesn’t wear shades</a> and a baseball cap while doing it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president <a href="http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/obama-rides-his-bicycle-in-chicago-image.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bicycles</a> with a helmet that would make Urkel blush. Mitt Romney <a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2012/01/120112_romneymotorcycle.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">digs motorcycles</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama goes shirtless as he takes <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=572&tbm=isch&tbnid=1cQO17TefxER3M:&imgrefurl=http://the17thman.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/aquaview-obama-goes-for-a-swim.html&docid=Eg9X6u3CPpqXvM&imgurl=http://the17thman.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c6c5753ef010536969ba8970c-500wi&w=450&h=262&ei=XyrXT-zRCerN6QGcsIGUAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=106&vpy=218&dur=366&hovh=122&hovw=210&tx=151&ty=64&sig=110860757483061447203&page=1&tbnh=122&tbnw=210&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:89" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">long walks</a> on the beach. Mitt Romney has <a href="http://weirdnews.about.com/od/socialantisocialstudies/ss/Weird-Mitt-Romney_2.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">magic underwear</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama likes to pick NCAA tournament brackets. Romney likes to pick winning stocks.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama can be shown to <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-dyeing-hair-20110121-092758-505.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dye his hair </a>black and gray as desired. Mitt Romney has an immaculately manicured coif that shines with the sheen of a silver fox.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has played over 1650 holes of golf while in office. Romney doesn’t go to the golf course often, because one time he did and he was arrested for sliding on big blocks of ice.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama proposed a <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/08/10/ignorance,_stupidity_or_connivance/page/full/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">10% luxury tax</a> that of the kind that killed the U.S. yacht industry.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Mitt Romney goes bowling, he <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-21-romney_N.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rolls strikes</a>. Obama <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2008/04/02/barack-obamas-bowling-disaster.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bowled a 37</a> over seven frames before quitting.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama cracked an <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1607391/president-obamas-special-olympics-joke-lands-him-hot-water.jhtml" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">insensitive joke</a> about the Special Olympics. Mitt Romney <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/02/mitt-romney-olympics-anniversary-stars-on-ice-/1#.T9cytcXlbQI" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">helped turn around</a> the actual Olympics.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama gets pizza <em>chefs </em><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168940/Obamas-fly-chef-860-miles-White-House--just-make-pizza.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">delivered</a> from St. Louis. Romney <a href="http://media.salon.com/2012/06/romney_firefighters_rect-460x307.jpg" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>delivers</em></a> pizza to firefighters.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama holds beer summits. Mitt Romney holds <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70YDD1tKYQ" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">jobs summits</a> with small business owners.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Romney#Marriage_and_children" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wife</a> is a hard-working, cancer-surviving mother of five children. Barack Obama’s wife once got paid a six figure salary for a <a href="http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2009/01/michelle-obamas-300k-job-at-hospital.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mail-in job</a> on a hospital board.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama’s VP is Joe Biden. Mitt Romney’s VP will not be Joe Biden.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Barack Obama does a speech, he uses a teleprompter. Mitt Romney often gives speeches without teleprompter or notes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney’s real first name is Willard. Barack Obama’s middle name is “Hussein.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The name of Mitt Romney’s mom is Lenore. The name of Barack Obama’s mom is Stanley.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s idea of community service is shaking down banks and agitating for radical causes. Mitt Romney’s idea of community service is doing charity work overseas.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney’s idea of missionary work is promoting the faith of the Mormon Church. Barack Obama’s idea of missionary work involves Mrs. Obama and won’t be discussed on this blog.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama cracks lewd jokes about Michelle Obama “doesn’t go all the way down” on her pushups. Mitt Romney doesn’t think there’s anything funny about not going all the way down on pushups, and if anyone on his campaign does it during morning PT, he has to sleep on the campaign bus.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57359323-503544/romney-gives-cash-to-jobless-campaign-volunteer/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gives away</a> pocketfuls of cash to jobless campaign volunteers. Barack Obama gives away presidential medals of freedom to known <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/29/obama-awards-medal-of-freedom-to-democratic-socialists-of-america-chair/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marxist leaders</a> like Dolores Huerta.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama’s idea of “change” is turning a prosperous free country into a hyper-regulated basketcase. Mitt Romney’s idea of change is the wad of twenties in his pocket.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After his father died, Mitt Romney gave away his entire inheritance to the BYU scholarship fund. Barack Obama gave away a bust of Winston Churchill that was a gift from England.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama once <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159627/To-special-friend-Gordon-25-DVDs-Obama-gives-Brown-set-classic-movies-Lets-hope-likes-Wizard-Oz.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gifted</a> a boxed set of DVDs to Prime Minister Gordon Brown that was not even formatted correctly. Mitt Romney has never seen <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>, due to its hidden socialist undertones.*</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/obama-gives-queen-elizabe_n_181862.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gave</a> an iPod to Queen Elizabeth loaded with his “greatest” speeches. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/mitt-romneys-playlist-oldies-country-americana/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mitt Romney’s iPod</a>doesn’t have his own speeches; more like country rock and Americana.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama likes to give shout outs to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/10/white-house-invite-political-rapper-stirs-controversy/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">politically motivated</a> and <a href="http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/lil_wayne/lollipop_dirty.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">foul-mouthed</a> gangsta<a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/01/dear-mr-president-which-jeezy-would-you-be/#obama-shouts-out-young-jeezy-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> rappers</a>. Mitt Romney doesn’t listen to hip hop.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When he was younger, Barack Obama’s idol was Saul Alinsky. Mitt Romney’s idol was Jesus Christ.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama holds onto politically partisan hacks like Eric Holder too long because he doesn’t like to fire his fellow Democrats. Because he lives in the world of reality, Mitt Romney likes the ability to fire incompetent workers.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Say what you want about Mitt Romney’s vacations, at least they don’t cost America’s taxpayers<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/president-obamas-lavish-vacations-under-scrutiny-again-153900010.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">millions</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s slogan “Forward” has a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rich history</a> of socialist usage. Mitt Romney’s slogan “Believe in America,” despite MSNBC’s <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-12-15/news/30518152_1_mitt-romney-hardball-host-chris-matthews-slogan" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">idiotic assertions</a>, has nothing to do with the KKK.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney rightly called the Occupy Movement “<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/06/romney-callls-occupy-wall-street-dangerous-and-class-warfare/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dangerous</a>” as it piled up <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-occupy-wall-st-protesters-you-are-reason-i-ran-office_610041.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">over 6,000 arrests</a>. Barack Obama called it “<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-occupy-wall-st-protesters-you-are-reason-i-ran-office_610041.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the reason I ran for office</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama “<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattw/obama-shows-support-for-occupywallstreet-arl" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">empathizes</a>” with the Occupiers. Mitt Romney empathizes with the unemployed looking for a full-time job.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt calls the auto bailout “tragic,” as it has led to a <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/government-down-16-billion-gm-bailout_646676.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$16 billion loss</a> for taxpayers. Obama claims that the auto bailouts “<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/28/news/economy/obama_auto_bailout/index.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">worked</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While Mitt <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-blames-obama-for-lengthening-weak-economy-150/2012/01/09/gIQAI8PxlP_video.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">slams Obam</a>a for the disastrous economy, the president thinks the private sector’s “doing just fine.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-warns-of-obamas-governmentrun-economy-in-st-louis-20120607,0,2161726.story" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warns </a>America about a “government-run economy.” Barack Obama fears a market-run economy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The last time Mitt Romney dined with the Chinese was at Szechuan Palace. The last time Obama dined with the Chinese, he begged the commie-run government to buy up more of our debt.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Mitt thinks of “AAA,” he laments the decline in our S&P credit ratings. When Obama thinks “AAA,” he recalls an auto club he once joined.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney sometimes forgets the keys to his Ford Mustang. Barack Obama “<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-sometimes-i-forget-magnitude-recession_644355.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sometimes forgets</a>” the magnitude of the recession the country’s been in.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Romney hears about the “New Black Panthers,” he intuitively thinks about booking a family trip to the Franklin Park Zoo. When Obama hears about the New Black Panthers, he checks his dayrunner to see if he has time for a <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/shock-photos-barack-obama-marched-with-new-black-panthers-at-2007-selma-rally" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">speaking engagement</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The in-the -tank media are <a href="http://shorewood.patch.com/articles/state-democratic-party-accuses-romney-of-election-bribery-by-handing-out-free-sandwiches" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">investigating</a> if Mitt Romney gave away free subs to court voters in Wisconsin. The same media could care less if there were <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/04/defense-officials-russian-subs-patrolling-east-coast-united-states/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">free subs</a> patrolling the waters of the Atlantic seaboard.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama’s Secretary of the Navy <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/14/naming-of-ships-returns-to-tradition/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">named</a> vessels after disgraced Democrat Jack Murtha, civil rights champion Medgar Evers, and leftist labor leader Cesar Chavez. Mitt Romney obviously named his son Taggart for an <em>Atlas Shrugged</em> character.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney once defied the state of Massachusetts by insisting he can put whatever stickers on his boat he wants. Barack Obama’s wife wants to “sponsor” an all-female boat in the Navy, whatever that means.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Contrary to popular misconception, Mitt Romney’s favorite game is not Etch-a-Sketch, it is Monopoly (with real money). Barack Obama’s favorite game is crushing the hopes and dreams of small business owners.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Under Mitt Romney’s governorship with the Democrat-dominated Massachusetts legislature, it became <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/08/28/romney_oversaw_millions_in_fee_hikes_as_massachusetts_governor/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">more expensiv</a>e to go ice skating, register a boat, or get a duplicate driver’s license. Under Obama, it became more expensive <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-57387655/inflation-not-as-low-as-you-think/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to breathe</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama’s idea of “stimulus” is to blow hundreds of billions on an economic program that <a href="http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2012/02/20/some_stimulus__obama_fails_on_his_own_top_three_presidential_priorities/page/full/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fails</a>by its own measures. Mitt Romney’s <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-01-19-2354800962_x.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">idea of “stimulus”</a> is to cut taxes and expenses for businesses so people can get back to work.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Barack Obama gives a speech, he stops to listen to his “God echo.” Mitt Romney has never heard a “God echo” — perhaps one time in church.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">As head of Bain Capital, Mitt Romney advised struggling companies to lay off a few thousand workers to keep afloat. As head of the United States, Obama’s economic policies have seen through the loss of over 5 million jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/12/13/romney_endorses_drilling_in_arctic_refuge/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">supports</a> drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Obama supports sky-high gas prices.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama believes in manmade climate change and supported taxing the world economy <em>via</em>cap-and-trade. Mitt Romney opposes regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as<em>ThinkProgress </em><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/08/26/304924/carl-hiaasen-gop-attacks-on-epa-jobs/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">laments</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney concedes that liquid coal is a viable form of energy. Barack Obama’s approach to coal is to <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/top-obama-epa-official-admits-to-plan-to-destroy-the-coal-industry-in-america-video/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">destroy the industry</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Romney withdrew Massachusetts from the carbon-regulatory regime <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Greenhouse_Gas_Initiative" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RGGI</a>. Obama’s science czar John Holdren <a href="http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">would like</a> to see such a scheme implemented on a “planetary” scale.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama collects Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian comics. Mitt Romney collects struggling businesses before turning them around.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Intelligence was leaked that the Pentagon has a model built of Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment plant.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Secrets were revealed that the NSA routinely taps the Pakistan security service’s cell phones.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama administration is responsible for leaks regarding the CIA’s <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577466910796158718.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">use of cameras </a>to catch terrorists.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of <em>Dreams from My Father</em>. Mitt Romney has a Grammy – her name is Anna.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Classified information was divulged that America has a secret program to protect Pakistain’s nuclear facilities.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before going more with an everyman’s look, Mitt Romney used to don suits from Nordstrom’s. Barack Obama wears suits from <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2008/10/22/obamas-expensive-designer-suit-habit/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">some designers</a>, including a guy named Marx.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama’s secret service codename is “Renegade.” Mitt Romney’s codename is alternately<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/secret-service-code-names-mitt-romney-rick-santorum_n_1366812.html" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Javelin”</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president’s administration <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-campaign-accused-of-leaking-intel-regarding-underwear-bomb" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">leaked intelligence</a> about a covert operation that stopped the “underwear bomber.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama owns four identical pairs of size 11 shoes. Mitt Romney owns 400 pairs of identical shoes, matching black jacket, black pants, and starched white shirts.*</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney’s favorite novel is <em>Battlefield Earth</em>, a novel set in 3000 featuring aliens with bad breath and intergalactic bankers who collect on a bad debt. Barack Obama’s favorite novel is <em>Moby Dick</em>, a tome about a mad fisherman’s quest to slay a white whale.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney’s favorite film is <em>O Brother, Where Are Thou?</em>, which is based on the Odyssey and set in 1930s southern America. Barack Obama’s favorite film is <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</em>, a film based on a borderline crazy man’s experience in an insane asylum.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Obama likes a musician, like Bob Dylan, he gives him a presidential medal of freedom. Mitt Romney buys their CD.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama stands 6’1. Mitt Romney is 6’2 (6’4 if you count his hair).</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama can’t stand ice cream. Mitt Romney personally <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvaWbr0-X0" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">scoops ice cream</a> for his supporters.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">For Mitt and Ann Romney’s first date, they went to see the soaring musical <em>The Sound of Music</em>. For Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, they went to see Spike Lee’s racial tensions flick <em>Do the Right Thing</em>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar in college, but was turned down by the all-female panel. Mitt Romney looks too perfect to be an Abercrombie & Fitch model.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama switched to a Ford Hybrid from a Chrysler 300 C during his campaign (before his presidential ride became The Beast). Mitt Romney owns many cars, including a Ford Mustang and a number of SUVs, and he doesn’t apologize for them.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama said he would liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician. Mitt Romney would have liked to have been a successful businessman.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama said, ““<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/06/obamas-outrageous-bank-tax/" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;">Like it or not</a>, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.” Romney would like it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Barack Obama said “I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.” Mitt Romney thinks that when you get off your behind and work, it’s good for everybody.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama actually said, ““In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.” Mitt Romney has warned repeatedly about the ruinous course of the European welfare state.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama said, “We can’t drive our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle" rel="wikipedia" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" title="Sport utility vehicle">SUVs</a> and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times…” Mitt Romney actually thinks you can.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney was almost arrested in Utah for merely saying the f-word when he insists he said “H-E-double hockey sticks.” President Obama once blasted his staff after an unsavory meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu by yelling, “What the f*** was that?!?”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney took no salary as Massachusetts Governor or president of the Olympics in Salt Lake City. Barack Obama took no salary for all those jobs he didn’t do.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">During the debt ceiling debate, President Obama <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/debt-ceiling/2011/07/12/obama-threatens-withhold-social-security-checks-seniors-and-vets" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">threatened</a> to withhold Social Security Checks from veterans and elderly to get his way. If the debt ceiling agreement didn’t go through, the executive branch would have been forced to budget, and Obama picked the most politically sensitive citizens to target in order to keep spending without limit. Mitt Romney has done no such thing in his political career and is more taken to task for compromise than playing such hardball.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Romney promises to “rebuild the foundations of the American economy on the principles of free enterprise, hard work, and innovation.” Obama will fail to build our nation’s future on the backs of our children with unlimited government spending, unending debt, and rampant corruption.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On Mitt Romney’s <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/issues/regulation" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">campaign site</a>, he states that he wants to cut red tape and cites that, “Regulations function as a hidden tax on Americans, with the federal government’s own Small Business Administration placing the price tag at $1.75 trillion annually.” Barack Obama has <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/03/regulation-nation-new-study-finds-obama%E2%80%99s-regs-cost-46-billion" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">exploded regulation</a>s in the nation, leading to tens of billions in additional bureaucratic burdens.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Governor Romney expanded gun rights in liberal Massachusetts and is an NRA member. President Obama has been hostile to gun ownership and <a href="http://www.issues2000.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on a questionnaire</a> supported the ban of handguns and assault rifles.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Romney has said straight up that, “Producing more domestic energy would create good jobs and bolster local economies.” Before becoming elected, Obama said, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Even without cap and trade, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/294671/under-obama-electricity-rates-are-necessarily-skyrocketing" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">they have anyway</a>.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/issues/russia" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">believes</a> Russia is a “destabilizing force on the world stage.” A concessionary Barack Obama once assured Dmitry Medvedev that “after my election I will have more flexibility” to yield to Russian interests.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Romney <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/collection/smaller-smarter-simpler-government" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">advocates</a> “smaller, smarter, simpler government.” Obama <a 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style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wants to hire</a> even more government employees.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Governor Romney once signed off on the individual mandate to carry health insurance. President Obama signed legislation that would force a similar program onto all Americans, regardless of what their state legislatures vote on it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/issues/israel" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says</a> unabashedly that “Israel is the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East and a beacon of democracy and freedom in the region.” Obama’s mixed record on Israel has left many Jews questioning if he’s really “<a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/world/101440/obama-netanyahu-israel-iran-aipac-foreign-policy" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">got their back</a>.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/issues/iran" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">believes</a> it is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. Barack Obama did nothing to promote a benign democratization push in Iran at the most opportune time.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">On the jobs front, Mitt Romney supports “free enterprise, free choice, and free speech.” Barack Obama supports what Mitt Romney calls the “government-centered society.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Mitt Romney is not Barack Obama.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama was elected in part due to a deceptive media that failed to properly vet an obviously radical president.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama had a lengthy left-wing track voting record compiled from his days as a state senator and U.S. Senator, although the mainstream media worked in concert to portray him to the American people as “moderate.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president was demonstrably and clearly a member of the socialist New Party in Illinois. Socialism is not compatible with constitutionally limited government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama had a number of scandalous associations, including with Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, and many others, which were shrugged away or swept under the rug by by the media.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama promised that he would “fundamentally transform” the country five days before his election. It is not the role of the United States president to unilaterally impose his preferences on millions of citizens.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Before coming to office, he frequently condemned Bush for his war policies; and then as president, he voted for the Patriot Act twice without revision, claimed he has the right to detain and assassinate U.S. citizens, and allowed the use of spy drones over domestic soil.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama lied frequently and egregiously about what he would do as president. The future president promised he would cut deficits, go line-by-line through wasteful legislation, bring more transparency to government, and end the wars in a timely fashion. Yet he has not been held accountable by the mainstream media for these lies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama the candidate used soaring and empty rhetoric to woo a nation sick of partisanship. But he betrayed this lofty tone a number of times, such as by referring to Republicans as “enemies,” rhetorically saying he would bring a gun to a knife fight, and that he wanted supporters to “get in people’s faces.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has engaged in class warfare politics foreign to this country’s history. He has attempted to pit rich against poor, and middle class against both, instead of underlining the capitalist truth that we can all prosper together through hard work.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The future president promised he would work with the Republicans in a bi-partisan fashion. But along with the Democrat-led Congress, he would force legislation through with little or no consequential input from GOP representatives.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The economic crisis that put Obama over the top was caused by bad fiscal practices such as forcing banks to make loans to subprime borrowers and the government insuring mortgages. There is no serious way of avoiding the fact that the government created perverse incentives and moral hazard with its mortgage lending regulations and policies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama would blame Bush for the situation he was put in on numerous occasions. But Obama would go on to double down on virtually every major Bush policy; including bailouts, stimulus, big healthcare programs, and war policies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has spent more money than any president over four years, while racking up more debt than all previous presidents combined. This money has to be paid back at interest by us and our children, one way or another.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has been one of the most corrupt presidents in history. Trillions in taxpayer money has been doled out by Obama in politically partisan fashion to unions, non-profit organizations, corporations, banks, and other campaign contributors.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Meanwhile, the spontaneously arising tea party, which objected to such shameless theft from hard-working producers and redistribution to the corrupt and non-working, were marginalized by the president, vilified by the Democrat Party without objection by Obama, and even called a foul-mouthed epithet by the president himself.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president would go on to support the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, a group of feckless criminals and aimless rabble-rousers whom he “empathized” with, even though he had been one of the major underwriters of Wall Street’s reckless practices.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama shamelessly pandered to unions, blacks, hispanics, women and every other known subsection of the American public even after he was elected president, whose office is meant to represent the interests of the entire country as a whole.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">After becoming president, Obama has endlessly remained in campaign mode, pausing only to act like a uniter at politically opportune times, such as after the Gabriel Giffords shooting.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He came to office with the slogan “Hope and Change,” and at the end of his presidency, has shamelessly carried out a negative re-election campaign.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although he has been hyped as one of the greatest orators in presidential history, Obama has a lengthy history of gaffes and awkward pauses.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has been touted as one of the smartest presidents ever, with little record to verify it, and without any demonstrable results to prove it.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has acted extremely incompetently at times; most visibly after the BP oil spill, which he let languish for forty days as he rhetorically used it as an issue to demonstrate the supposed wisdom of his environmental policies. Once he decided to act, the leak was stopped within a few days. The BP oil spillage then quickly resolved itself by dissipating into the Gulf of Mexico.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama would defy the rule of law repeatedly, acting more like he had been coronated Tsar than elected president. Disregarding a Louisiana judge’s ruling against the unilaterally imposed moratorium on offshore drilling is but one obvious example. Strong-arming BP to set up a victim’s fund in violation of due process rights is a related offense.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president would then appoint numerous radical, virtually unconfirmable “czars” to head various executive posts and initiatives in violation of Senatorial advise and consent. Many of these czars, like Julius Genachowski at FCC, would operate in defiance of legislatively passed laws.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president then ignored the Constitution on several other matters, such as by making a recess appointment when the Senate was not in recess, which is <em>explicitly</em> forbidden by the Constitution.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president would then bully countless businesses and organizations, meanwhile touting a “bullying” campaign in our schools. A prominent example among many is the NLRB’s blocking of a Boeing plant to be built in right-to-work South Carolina.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama pressured the CEO of GM to resign and then put a political hack in his place. It is not the proper role of the president to act like CEO of the country.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama postured as if he would be a post-racial president as a candidate, but then his lapdogs proceeded to inflame race relations, making them worse than they have been in decades.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama ran as a blank slate candidate that the public could project their hopes onto and ended up being an extremely partisan president that engages in sleazy politics.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president set up a number of websites that encouraged Americans to spy on and snitch on one another to the government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has called out private citizens by name in order to castigate them, such as talk show host Rush Limbaugh.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has deceptively used private citizens to make anecdotal arguments for policies. One example is the case of Democrat political operative Sandra Fluke.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has refused to forthrightly and expeditiously release commonplace records to the public, keeping them secret and attacking anyone who seeks more information as a ‘conspiracy theorist.’</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama claimed that he “would not rest” until he accomplished several policy goals (which were never accomplished), but then took lavish vacations and went golfing a record number of times for a president.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has demagogued about the ‘shared sacrifice’ and ‘skin in the game’ he expected of Americans, but has lived like a king on the taxpayer dime, like outrageously flying in a pizza chef to make him pizza.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama has schmoozed with celebrities and appeared numerous times on talk shows to engage in shameless self-promotion, which is noticeably unbecoming of the presidency and lowers the dignity of the office.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has used funding of the arts to engage in political propaganda.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has promulgated a cult of personality that has led to children singing odes to his name in school, which he has fed by giving personal messages to children reinforced by Department of Education issued questionnaires.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">His environmental agenda has consisted in constant and endless fearmongering about supposed “manmade climate change,” which has reinforced his program of gaining a regulatory stranglehold over energy production and industry.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama and his cadres have bald-faced bragged about intentionally making electricity prices “skyrocket” and driving coal companies out of business.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has in numerous ways worked to erode U.S. sovereignty in deference to unelected and unaccountable UN bodies, Quangos, and INGOs. He backed a cap-and-trade scheme that would have seen trillions of money laundered through the UN and political cronies’ hands; his financial appointees have mulled a global currency to be administered by the IMF (which was recently headed by a socialist); he has called for ratification of a restrictive small arms treaty; supports the Law of the Seas Treaty;, and has advocated other sovereignty-infringing treaties.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In violation of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Act, President Obama has committed troops to military actions without reporting to Congress; and he has justified such action by appeal to international bodies like NATO. In addition, he has committed U.S. troops and hardware to carry out missions in various countries in Africa, such as Libya; as well as in Yemen and Pakistan, among other sovereign nations.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has cordially and in unseemly fashion courted various socialist despots, Islamist dictators, and authoritarian heads of state.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has on a number of occasions bowed to foreign heads of state in a manner violating foreign policy protocol and besmirching national dignity.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has insulted our allies Britain and Israel by giving foreign leaders inappropriate gifts and inexcusably flaunted etiquette in high level meetings.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When the Iranian people needed a world leader to visibly support their struggle for freedom and democratic accountability, Obama was nowhere to be found. The president claimed he did not want to meddle in Iran’s internal politics.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When Honduras removed its burgeoning socialist dictator from power, Obama not only misrepresented the legal action to remove Zelaya as a “coup,” he instructed the State Department to punish Honduras by withholding foreign aid.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">When the Arab Spring movement caught fire in the Middle East, Obama interjected himself into Egyptian politics to help remove authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak from office. After his intervention, Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and worse rose to power.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has repeatedly and inexplicably made conciliatory gestures towards Russia, which has repaid his “flexibility” with hostile foreign policy actions around the world.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has continued to borrow far and away what the country can afford to repay from the communist regime of China, strengthening an ideological adversary at the American people’s expense.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has continued to prop our foreign adversaries that rely heavily on oil revenue by intentionally hamstringing the country’s ability to fulfill its own energy needs, particularly through environmental regulations.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has reduced the full faith and credit of the United States by enacting no policies to avoid a reduction in our sovereign credit rating from AAA to AA+.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has slashed the military capability and might of the United States by reducing its troops levels and cutting funding while expanding its responsibilities.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">His generals’ restrictive military orders in Afghanistan and the president’s demoralizing rhetoric about not seeking “victory” have contributed to a doubling of military casualties in that country.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has politicized the military through advancing a gay agenda that has nothing to do with military effectiveness and by introducing a dangerous and symbolic conversion to biofuels in the U.S. Navy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has hypocritically chided the American people for not obeying certain environmental imperatives, meanwhile violating nearly every one of such admonishments personally.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president and the first lady have harassed the American people to consume food according to “healthy” guidelines, while personally violating their own guidelines constantly.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The government has been spending taxpayer money to promote the supposed benefits of its own policies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The government has been subsidizing “non-profit” organizations whose often controversial goals do not represent the American people’s interest as a whole.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama passed a healthcare law that is an affront to religious freedom, since it compels religious institutions to violate their members’ conscience by promoting and funding contraception and abortions.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president lied about no public funding going towards abortion in his healthcare law.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He also ‘lied’ about the healthcare law not being applicable to illegal immigrants.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president’s signature healthcare law has also been exposed in the courts to be likely unconstitutional and should be struck down as such. The healthcare law is a flagrant violation of individual rights, as it demands that the citizen engage in commerce, and puts the life and health of every man, woman, and child in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has imposed billions of dollars in regulatory burdens upon companies and small businesses.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has done nothing about the U.S.’ highest corporate tax rates in the world, driving overseas much-needed jobs.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president imposed a number of tax increases that impact the lower and middle class.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He also deceptively raised taxes after his next election year to pay for “Obamacare.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obamacare did not and will not lower healthcare costs in any way, shape, matter, or form, although it was touted as such.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">His massive program threatens to fundamentally alter the relationship of government to the citizenry; effectively transforming people into wards of the state and political subjects.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The government used Americans’ money to bail out foreseeably failing European nations without repercussion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president’s administration has leaked intelligence secrets to the press for seemingly political reasons.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">One of the worst political scandals in U.S. history, a gun-running scheme that resulted in hundreds of deaths known as “Operation Fast & Furious,” which carried implications for gun law arguments, transpired on Obama’s watch without accountability for the highest officials implicated.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has warped the economic infrastructure of the nation by directing productive activity away from consumer demand and towards fulfilling government orders and initiatives. The billions in green energy funding has resulted in little more than waste, corruption, and crowding out in the marketplace.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has done nothing about the ponderous social welfare programs whose unsustainable debt financing threatens to bankrupt the nation within a generation.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president and his party have demonized any who seek to seriously and responsibly address the nation’s real problems as “terrorists,” “extremists,” “hostage takers,” and worse.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Although required by law to pass a budget each fiscal year, the president and his party have not passed a budget in over 1,000 days.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Both the president and his party have subsequently blamed their opposition party as “obstructionist,” even though the Democrats control two-thirds of the branches of government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president appointed political partisans to the Supreme Court who have Constitutionally questionable legal rationales. Justice Elena Kagan is ruling on the constitutionality of a healthcare law that she officially advocated for instead of recusing herself from hearing the case.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president not only failed to uphold the territorial integrity of the United States by forcefully opposing illegal immigration, but he has legally attacked states that have sought to do so.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">His Justice Department has fought states that are taking measures to prevent voter fraud in the upcoming national election, arguing speciously that checking for voter’s citizenship is “racist.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Previously, the same Justice department refused to protect the voting rights of citizens on racial grounds.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama campaign has contracted with Internet companies to engage in widespread data mining in order to construct political profiles of prospective voters.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Candidate Obama one time boasted about wanting a “civilian national security force” just as well-funded and equipped as the United States military. Of course, such a concept is hostile to Constitutionally limited government and any domestic standing army would become a permanent threat to civil liberties if it were to be established.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Department of Homeland Security issued a report on “right-wing extremist” groups that included potential threats as Constitutional government proponents, Ron Paul supporters, and returning veterans.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Obama campaign has consistently smeared its opponents as racists, misogynists, and other kinds of bigots, without proof. He has constantly provoked a political atmosphere of incivility.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">In addition, the president and his advocates constantly frame him as the victim, even though he is the most powerful man in the world.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The Transportation Security Administration under Obama has humiliated and denigrated hundreds of passengers, including women and children, all in the name of “political correctness.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Terrorist actions have occurred on American soil under Obama; although his administration has changed nomenclature or simply ignored terrorist events to suggest they didn’t actually take place. The Fort Hood massacre is one such example.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has interjected himself into local political and news matters to exploit them for partisan purposes.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama noticeably lacks patriotism when it comes to celebrating national holidays, showing reverence for the military, and touting American exceptionalism. He has skipped several veteran’s or patriotic events or has celebrated them in spurious, non-symbolic fashion.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president has ideologically attacked the economic and political foundations of the country, referring to them in some cases as “failed theories.” He has stated that the Constitution is “deeply flawed,” for one example.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obama does not openly and consistently endorse the Constitutional foundations of this country; namely, individual rights, liberty, and limited government. Instead, he emphasizes collectivist principles laudable in society and conflates them with the role of government.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has failed to articulate a clear vision for the country. This is presumably because he has a hidden agenda and is managing things on a day-to-day basis pragmatically as he gains power.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president brazenly and intentionally confuses the accumulation of state power with “progress” in the public mind.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The American public has been barraged since the inception of the Obama administration with a number of petty outrages and distractions to frustrate the coalescence of opposition to any one particular policy.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">He has not given the public ample time to debate or provide feedback on proposed policies.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The president championed his healthcare proposal for nearly a year before the Democrat Congress forced it down an opposing public’s throats.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama has insulted other branches of government while carrying out official duties; such as by condemning the Supreme Court for a decision during his State of the Union address.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The executive branch has centralized an unprecedented amount of power; often at the expense of the legislature and the states.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">President Obama defied Congress and <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-immigration-0618-jm-20120618,0,4192990.story" style="color: #663333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">effectively implemented</a> the Dream Act by executive order. This runs contrary to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution granting Congress the authority: “To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.”</li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The President has clearly failed to uphold his Oath of Office by knowingly and willfully refusing to steadfastly preserve, protect, and defend The Constitution of the United States.</li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Constitution of the United States</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Bill of Rights</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>References:</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.ratical.org</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.youtube.com</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kyle Becker</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conservative Daily News</span></span></div><ol style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li></li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll never forget the day I realized Obama would win the 2008 Presidential election. My wife and I were in our hotel room in Paris when I turned the tube on and on CNN UK, the host was announcing Sarah Palin as John McCain's pick for VP. I like Sarah Palin a lot, however, I had never heard of her before that day. I had already come to the conclusion that McCain would lose to Obama because McCain was too much like Obama. I wish I could forget the last 38 months. Being a father of a deployed U.S. Marine in Afghanistan, I love my country and everything my Son and our brave military men and women fight for. Our Constitution has worked pretty well for the last 236 years and counting. When I see an ideological, socialist, smug, arrogant, narcissistic, community organizer circumventing congress and the Constitution to promote his radical agenda, worries me to no end. I truly believe Obama's vision of America is mirroring northwestern Europe. Ironically, socialism hasn't worked anywhere. It's not about socialism, it's about complete and overall controlling every aspect of our lives. Take a look at the news, food police in schools, Michelle Obama imposing her food police on schools, restaurants, etc... EPA attempting to regulate the air we breathe, forcing shut downs of 106 coal fired energy plants, DOI stopping oil drilling on public lands, regulating everything that encourages business and job generation. NLRB telling companies (Boeing) where and what to do. Gas prices have doubled since he took office. Unemployment is stagnant, hovering over 8+%. DHS lying to the American people that the border is more secure than ever. Why then, did I read an article stating 56 FBI offices are on high alert because they are concerned with Iranian and Hezbollah agents (terrorists) are in our country planning terrorists attacks. DOJ running guns to drug dealers in Mexico in which a heroic Border agent, Brian Terry was murdered with one of the illegal "gunrunner" weapons. I pray for his family, I wonder if Obama or Holder did. Obama had attended 101 fundraisers to date, twice as many as Bush and 3 times as many as Clinton. Notice how Obama never seems to mention Obamacare? In our short history as a country, I don't think the federal government has sued states as much as the Obama administration. I could go on forever, but I won't. Needless to say, Obama is the most corrupt President, has the most corrupt and controlling administration, and in short, Obama has brought the Chicago political corruption machine nationwide. Obama is a Saul Alinsky radical who has a major chip on his shoulder about America. If you read his books, you will understand a lot about Obama. His grandfather and father hated colonialism. Obama's Father was a communist. Obama has been pampered his whole life. He went to the best schools, colleges and has been shielded by his handlers his whole life. Unfortunately, he has not ever held a real job. On November 6, 2012, we, as a nation must come together and change this mistake and make Obama unemployed. <b>I will never apologize for my country.</b></span><br />
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830303"><div id="yiv2021436602AOLMsgPart_1_f228f694-e979-49f0-86fe-945abadb90cc"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830300"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830297"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830294"><div id="yiv2021436602ecxcompText"><blockquote id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830291" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 5pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830288"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830285"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830282"><blockquote id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830279" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 5pt;"><div id="yiv2021436602ecxyiv1217811318"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830276"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830273"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830270"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830267"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830264"><blockquote id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830261" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 3pt; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 5pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830258"><blockquote id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830255" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 5pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830252"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830249"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830246"><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px;"><div><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237185"><b><i><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 13.5pt;">AMAZING !!! He really HAS done something...TO AMERICA</span></i></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830243"><blockquote id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830240" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 5pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830237"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830234"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830231"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830228"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830225"><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px;"><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237195"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">An impressive list of accomplishments!</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830222"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830219"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830216"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830213"><blockquote id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830210" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 5pt;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830207"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830204"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830201"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830198"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1331257395830195"><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px;"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237207"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237211"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, receive it, and then deny he was a foreigner later in his life.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237221"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237225"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. (How is that even possible??)</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237235"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237239"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237249"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237253"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to violate the War Powers Act. ( Libya , the Sudan , the Congo and Central African Republic .)</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237263"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237267"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237277"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237281"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237305"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237309"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to spend over a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237319"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237323"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his donors and supporters.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237333"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237337"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat, instead of getting the illegal immigration problem addressed</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237345"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">by all of the government .</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237355"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237359"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237369"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237373"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. (BP)</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237383"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237387"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to end America ’s ability to put a man in space.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237397"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237401"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present, so he could stay on vacation.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237411"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237415"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law he doesn't agree with, unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237425"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237429"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237439"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237443"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. (Boeing)</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237453"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237457"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN...., immigration lawsuits).</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237467"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237471"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237481"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237485"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237495"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237499"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237509"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237513"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90+ to date.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237523"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237527"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to hide his past medical, educational and travel records.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237537"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237541"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237551"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237555"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237565"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237569"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.2in;"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div class="yiv2021436602MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237579"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">·</span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxapple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv2021436602ecxyui320171328809354237583"><b><span style="color: black; 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<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/08/derrick-a-bell-visited-the-white-house-twice-in-2010/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010 ...</a></strong></span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visitor logs show that Derrick A. Bell visited the White House twice since President Obama took office. The logs show two visits by an individual of that name on January 29 and 31, 2010.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/derrickbell-wh-visit.jpg" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="98" src="http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/derrickbell-wh-visit.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="derrickbell-wh-visit" width="637" /></a></span></div><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Derrick Albert Bell, the late Harvard professor and controversial scholar in the field of Critical Race Theory has been thrust into national headlines after conservative bloggers at Breitbart.com <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">posted video</a> of Obama lauding his work at a 1991 rally at Harvard.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heritage could not independently confirm that the Derrick A. Bell listed is the same individual who spoke at the rally. The White House did not return a request for comment.</span></div></blockquote></div><br />
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font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Gallup</a> reports that U.S. unemployment, as measured without seasonal adjustment, increased to 9.1 percent in February from 8.6 percent in January and 8.5 percent in December.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/zh0hu1picu2m-spxb6p3sw.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><img alt="Gallup: Unemployment Hits 9.1 Percent" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-261480" height="322" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/zh0hu1picu2m-spxb6p3sw.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;" title="zh0hu1picu2m-spxb6p3sw" width="541" /></a><em>Photo Source: Gallup</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The 0.5-percentage-point increase in February compared with January is the largest such month-to-month change Gallup has recorded in its not-seasonally adjusted measure since December 2010, when the rate rose 0.8 points to 9.6 percent from 8.8 percent in November,”<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/153161/Unemployment-February.aspx" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Gallup’s</a> chief economist Dennis Jacobe writes.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“A year ago, Gallup recorded a February increase of 0.4 percentage points, to 10.3 percent from 9.9 percent in January 2011,” he adds.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to Gallup’s reported number of unemployed U.S. workers, they also found that 10.0 percent are “working part time but want full-time work.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This percentage is similar to the 10.1 percent in January, but is higher than the 9.6 percent of February 2011,” Jacobe writes.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/t0pldj1jj0exarmy8z0mpq.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><img alt="Gallup: Unemployment Hits 9.1 Percent" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-261479" height="354" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/t0pldj1jj0exarmy8z0mpq.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;" title="t0pldj1jj0exarmy8z0mpq" width="594" /></a><em>Photo Source: Gallup</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take the two together (the unemployed and part-time seeking full-time) and Gallup’s underemployment number increased to 19.1 percent in February from 18.7 percent in January.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/t0pldj1jj0exarmy8z0mpq1.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><img alt="Gallup: Unemployment Hits 9.1 Percent" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-261484" height="354" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/t0pldj1jj0exarmy8z0mpq1.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;" title="t0pldj1jj0exarmy8z0mpq" width="594" /></a><em>Photo Source: Gallup</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is an improvement from the 19.9 percent seen in February 2011. But how did Gallup gets these results and how do they stack up next to the Government’s stats (oh, also, keep in mind the<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fact-check-obama%E2%80%99s-80-of-americans-are-sold-claim-is-skewed/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self">regular caveats</a> that go along with these type of surveys and their results)?</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/153161/Unemployment-February.aspx" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Jacobe explains</a> [emphases added]:</span></div><blockquote style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In mid-February, Gallup reported that its U.S. unemployment rate <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/152753/Unemployment-Increases-Mid-February.aspx" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">had increased to 9.0 percent</a> from 8.3 percent in mid-January. The mid-month reading normally provides a relatively good estimate of the government’s <em>unadjusted</em> unemployment rate for the month.</span></div></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Week in Question:</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #333333;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">O</span>n April 4, 1968, a great man was assassinated. Martin Luther King, Jr; was standing on his hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">was murdered by James Earl Ray. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> He was there to lead a protest march with striking city garbage workers. He touched so many people, black and white. He spoke of non-violence, civil disobedience to further the struggle for civil rights, equality and the war on poverty. In 1955, MLK received his doctorate from Boston University. It seems not many people know that Dr. King was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and donated the $54,000+ to civil rights entities. Back then, $54,000 was a tremendous amount of money. He was 35 years old and the youngest to receive this award. Dr. King went on to be Pastor of many Southern churches. A prominent member/leader of many minority groups, including the NAACP, he never lost focus on his true purpose, God and Civil Rights.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>MLK's I have a dream: (video)</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>MLK, Jr's "I have a dream" speech: (Text)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><b>By MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.</b></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. 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Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.</div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream today.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream today.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 150px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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King (MLK’s brother) appeared on FOX News on Monday, where she discussed her uncle’s legendary civil rights work.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Additionally, she claimed that King would have adamantly defended life from “conception until natural death,” as she delved into the notion that he would have championed pro-life values.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In describing her uncle and the titles that many attempt to attach to him, she said:</div><blockquote style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">“It’s not so much about labels — liberal, conservative and all of that. But he was someone who lived and gave his life to help all humanity. And so that definitely would include conception until natural death. And he would want everyone to be able to live — to have food — to have somewhere to sleep and to have a job. You know, all of those things are very important. But, he would really support the best quality of life and that is conception to natural death.”</div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">She went on to claim that “a woman has a right to choose what she does with her body,“ but she claimed that ”the baby is not her body.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">“How can the dream survive if we murder our children?,” she asked.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><script src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=1393963983001&w=466&h=263" type="text/javascript">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></span><div><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Constitution of the United States </span></b></span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bill of Rights</span></b></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Ratified on December 15, 1791</span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">2.</span><a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment02/">Right to keep and bear arms</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Normally, I would comment on the contents of the article below. Today, I am going to articulate my opinion of the dire troubles Obama's re-election campaign faces. Obama has a great deal of money in his war chest. The liberal/progressive fat cats (the 1%) spoon feeding Obamatron millions of dollars for a plate of mediocre fare. I will not bore you with the many polls showing Obama has lost the Independent and Hispanic vote, especially in Florida. I saw a poll where the democrats have lost 825,000 democrat voters in 8 key swing states, directly related to Obama. Obama has lost a large percentage of the 18 to 30 year old voting block, probably because those young adults are living in their parents' basements since they can't find employment. 32 consecutive months of unemployment over 8%, even after the <strike>Stimulus</strike> Porkulus promise. Most of the voting segments that Obama enjoyed in 2008 are not in his corner this election cycle. Obama has lost many Hollyweird liberals. Attenzione, do not count out Obama, he is the most cunning, diabolical, dishonest, hypocritical and narcissistic President in history. (Jimmy Carter told me to say that.) Also, the radical progressives will do anything (legal and illegal) to get the anointed one re-elected. Especially, knowing Obama's poll numbers are so bad, desperation is very dangerous. As we move closer to November, remember, we must, or as Al Sharpton would say, "we much" remove Obama and his socialistic administration out of office. We need to get back on track and save our country, our economy and our sanity. The article below was sent to me by my friend, Duke Misnik. </span><br />
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<div id="yiv669195966"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586150"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586147"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586144"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586141"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586138"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586135"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586132"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586129"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586126"><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586123" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card </b></span></span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586123" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;">by Rich Carroll</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mr. Hope and Change wants to create a nation humbled; humiliated, casting-aside capitalism and individual freedoms for one where we the people are government controlled. This would be a system that genuflects mediocrity, steals personal aspiration and opportunity, and punishes those who strive to succeed.<br />
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A gallon of regular gasoline the day Obama was inaugurated was $1.79 on average in the U.S. Today that price is $3.59, a 100.6% increase. The number of food stamp recipients has risen since Obama took office from 31,983,716 to 43,200,878, a 35.1% jump. Long term unemployment soared 146.2% during the same 32 month period from 2,600,000 to 6,400,000. Staggering hope and change isn't it?<br />
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American citizens living in poverty have risen 9.5% from 39,800,000 to 43,600,000, and the number of unemployed has jumped almost 25% from 11,616,000 to 14,485,000 as of August 31, 2011 . The number of unemployed blacks has risen from 12.6% at the end of George Bush's term to 15.8% today, a 25.4% increase, and finally, our national debt is up 34.4% from 10.627 trillion to 14,278 trillion * </i><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</strong></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326327682586123" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">Keep these figures in mind as we recount the number of firsts for this presidency: </strong><b style="background-color: white;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate.<br />
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.<br />
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.<br />
First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States .<br />
First President to violate the War Powers Act.<br />
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .<br />
First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.<br />
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.<br />
First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and later admit there was no such thing as shovel-ready jobs.<br />
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.<br />
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.<br />
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.<br />
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.<br />
First President to terminate Americas ability to put a man in space.<br />
First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places.<br />
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.<br />
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.<br />
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.<br />
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory..<br />
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)<br />
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.<br />
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.<br />
First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office.<br />
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.<br />
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.<br />
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.<br />
First President to coddle American enemies while alienating Americas allies.<br />
First President to publicly bow to Americas enemies while refusing to salute the U.S. Flag.<br />
First President to go on multiple global apology tours.<br />
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.<br />
First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin.<br />
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.<br />
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense.<br />
First President to repeat the Holy Qur'an tells us, and openly admit the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.<br />
Remember that 32 months of Obama White House we the people have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation's entire history, as the Obama's plan their next extravagant vacation to the Indonesian Island nation of Bali ..<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In an interview with TheDC on Wednesday, O’Keefe said the exposé shows how voter fraud can be easier to perpetrate when identification isn’t required.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“There is fraud going on and our goal is to visualize it for people,” he said. <strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/elections/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">(RELATED: Complete election coverage on The Daily Caller)</a></strong></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said no laws were broken during the investigation and that his team members never claimed to be the dead people whose ballots they were trying to obtain. Instead, they carefully worded the way they asked for ballots, phrasing it like: “Do you have Earnest Chavanelle?” and “Do you have Paul Soucy?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O’Keefe said he eventually plans to post full, unedited videos of the encounters. “It shows the integrity of the elections process is severely comprised,” the filmmaker said.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We decided to go in there without using any false pretenses,” he said. “There’s no misrepresentation in these videos if you watch them — we didn’t lie about who we were.”</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The investigators never actually voted when they were given ballots. Sting artists who received ballots would leave the voting precincts after saying they left their identification in the car.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We were very careful about that,” he said. <strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/11/photo-id-provisions-important-to-securing-elections/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">(EXCLUSIVE NEWT GINGRICH OP-ED: Photo ID provisions important to securing elections)</a></strong></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The investigation worked this way: O’Keefe and his team obtained names of recently deceased New Hampshirites through published obituaries, and used publicly available voter roll information to find dead people still on the voting rolls.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With that information, O’Keefe’s investigators went to the polls on Tuesday and requested ballots in the names of the deceased.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Some of them died a few months ago, some of them died a few weeks ago,” he said.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In many cases, ballots were handed over by the poll workers without any skepticism. In only one case did a poll worker realize that the investigator wasn’t the person the ballot was meant for — because the woman giving out the ballots knew the dead person in question.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That incident <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20220110fraudulent_voter_stopped_in_nh/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">made it into the Boston Herald</a>.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one instance, the sting artist told a poll worker that he voluntarily wants to show his ID. But the female poll worker responds that “the state says we’re not allowed to ask for identification.”</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O’Keefe said the investigation stemmed from discovering that “there are people who have voted who are dead.”</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We found many, many people who are both dead and registered to vote. … How is it that dead people are voting? Someone’s committing fraud.”</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica, times;"><b>Constitution of the United States </b></span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica, times;"><b>Bill of Rights</b></span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #00324f; font-family: helvetica, times;"><b><br />
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.</span></b></span></div><div class="yiv669195966MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the Iowa caucus behind us, Bachmann pulls out of the race, Perry doesn't know what he is going to do. Obama takes out full page ads in the Des Moines Register to let his people know he is still viable, needless to say, things are getting very interesting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not a huge fan of Romney, however, if he can beat Obama, I will vote for him. I honestly don't think Ron Paul could beat Obama in the General election. I don't agree with his foreign and some of his domestic policies. Yes, I do agree with some of his ideas like end the Fed, abolish certain federal departments, etc... Rick Santorum really won Iowa simply by placing second by 8 votes and not spending 14 million dollars like Romney. In my opinion, Santorum is the closest to a conservative we have left. Herman Cain had to go. His issue is that he is black. Obama can be the only black man running for President. Obviously, so the liberals can play the race card. I don't con don the advances Herman Cain allegedly made, however, I never saw any proof, just accusations. When Gloria Allred gets involved, you know there is suspicious activities being created. The liberals will attempt to take down any republican candidate that is moving to the top of the pack. Gringrich is done. His ego thinks he can pull off an upset. Newt has a hundred ideas a day, where only 25 are good ones. He has a lot of baggage from the nineties. Also, his commercial with Nancy Pelosi will hurt him in the contest. Huntsman should get out now. He insulted the Iowans, no one besides his daughters will vote for him. Buddy Roamer, I think is still in the race, enough said. So what do we do and where do we go? I am part of the ABO Consortium (Anybody But Obama). The bottom line is we must defeat Obama in November to start to rebuild our country's employment, energy independence, fiscal responsibility, immigration issues and a whole host of domestic and foreign problems. If we don't we will never get our country in 2016. It will be a distant memory. On Facebook, many of my conservative friends say they won't vote for the republican candidate if they are not completely conservative? So, in spite of themselves, they will graciously give Obama a second term. Foolish at best! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obama has the gonads to tell 60 minutes' Steve Kroft that he rates himself the 4th greatest President. Jimmy "Peanuts" Carter is partying like a madman (he is a Mad man) because the anointed one is undoubtedly, the worst President in our short history. Look into the future, if Obama won a second term, he could possibly appoint 2 Supreme Court Justices. Scalia and Kennedy are in their late seventies or early eighties. There is only a 5-4 conservative edge to the court. Obama has already appointed Sotomayor and Kagen, 2 progressive radicals. Along with a cackle of liberal agenda policies, Obama would implement a western European Socialistic society, without having to worry about being re-elected. Knowing his acute narcissism, he could possibly become the supreme leader of the United States, like Hugo Chavez or Kim Jong Il (changed to Kim Jong Dead). </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tEa-e8wKVCY/TwTA0TnicJI/AAAAAAAABdY/LzNXoKVYqbY/s1600/Obama+rev+Wright.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tEa-e8wKVCY/TwTA0TnicJI/AAAAAAAABdY/LzNXoKVYqbY/s1600/Obama+rev+Wright.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of skeletons in the closet, Obama has more than most. Remember Reverend Wright, the racist, anti-American man of the cloth? How about Bill Ayers, Bernadean Dorn, the domestic terrorists, Tony Rezko, Mr. Finance, or his golf buddy on the most recent Hawaii vacation who was arrested on soliciting prostitution a few weeks ago? One of my many issues with Obama is he believes he can do anything with the American taxpayer's money. Solyndra (bankrupted), Lightsquared (Obama bundler donor), Fisker cars (made in Finland), Chevy Volt (catching fire), and the many more billions Obama is giving to green energy companies that give Obama political favors. I believe in my heart that the Fast and Furious Gunrunner scam was to promote more gun control. This alone, should be enough evidence to impeach Obama and put Holder in jail. I thought when many people are involved, that is called conspiracy. Even though Obama was victorious on Obamacare, I hope the Supreme Court eviscerates this law. We can fix the world's best health care system without socializing it. If we can win the Presidency and Senate, corrections can be made quickly to fix our country. I think we will pick up seats in the House. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, what are we going to do? Us conservatives? If we don't get our way? Stay home? Let Obama walk into a second term? No! We will support the candidate that wins the Republican nomination. That's right, we need to get Obama, his sycophants, czars and Muslim brotherhood members out of the White House. Period. We can do it. Believe!!!</span><br />
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</div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mitt Romney squeaked through last night with </span></span><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_CAMPAIGN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-04-00-15-19" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">8 vote margin</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> over Santorum in Iowa</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">But at least three candidates have a plausible claim to have "won" the Iowa caucuses:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Mitt Romney, whose vote total of 30,015 votes exceeded that of Rick Santorum by 8 votes.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Rick Santorum, who rocketed from the bottom of the pack to the position of number one anyone-but-Romney candidate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #009900; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 16px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">Ron Paul</span>, who finished 3 percentage points behind Romney and Santorum, but whose organization reportedly instructed his well-organized supporters to stay late, and get themselves elected as delegates. Grace Wyler of </span></span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-winner-iowa-caucuses-strategy-201201" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Business Insider</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paul's massive organizational push in Iowa focused on both winning votes, and also on making sure that Paul supporters stuck around <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #009900; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 16px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">after the</span> vote to make sure they were selected as county delegates - the first step towards being elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">That's because Iowa's Republican caucuses are non-binding - they are technically just a straw poll, so once selected, delegates are free to vote for whichever presidential candidate they choose.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Part of what we've been training the Ron Paul people to do is not to leave after the vote," Dan Godzich, a senior campaign advisor, told BI. "Stay and get elected to the conventions and get us those delegates."</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Newt Gingrich only pulled in 13% of the vote, but vows to make his stand in South Carolina. Rick Perry is </span></span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550304577138703463083604.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">returning to Texas</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to "determine whether there is a path forward" , after receiving just over 10% of the vote, which sounds as though he may be dropping out of the race. Michele Bachmann, whose total was about half that of Perry's may not be able to continue her campaign, but vows to press on. If both drop out, presumably this would add support to Santorum.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conservative stalwart Richard Viguerie of </span></span><a href="http://view.email.conservativehq.com/?j=fe521679726d05787c17&m=febc1574726d0275&ls=fe0013707463007c7d177075&l=fe9015797663047e7d&s=fe32157376640775771677&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe2116757d6d057e711278&r=0" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">ConservativeHQ.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> sees the results as a defeat for Mitt Romney:</span></span></div><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Republican establishment is in a major panic tonight. The Iowa caucus results show the volatility of a campaign that appears to open the door to new candidates (from the right and the center) to enter the race--all but guaranteeing the race will be settled at the Republican National Convention.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Mitt Romney's Nelson Rockefeller-like strategy of ignoring conservatives met its limits tonight. After five years of campaigning, and spending tens of millions dollars, Romney is almost exactly where he was in 2008--at 25% of the vote. Romney's failure to grow his base and close the deal with conservatives tonight will undoubtedly renew the establishment's search for a new candidate to replace the flagging Romney.</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Romney is expected to do well in New Hampshire, where voters are familiar with him via Boston media that reach the heavily populated southern end of the state. Santorum's performance there will be the major question mark. The all eyes will turn to South Carolina.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve McCann adds:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are 2.1 million registered voters in Iowa. Of that number approximately 1.4 million are registered as independents and Republicans.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last night 122, 900 voters attended the caucus and cast their votes. That represents 5.8% of all registered voters and 8.7% of those identified as independent and Republican. (While theoretically a closed caucus anyone could change or register at the caucus site.) For the record the turnout amounts to 19.0% of all registered Republicans. (</span></span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/state/ia" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/state/ia</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">By age group: 68% of caucus attendees were in the 45 and over group. In the 2008 general election: 53% were in the 45 and over group.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since 1980 only one Republican, George W. Bush, has won the Iowa caucus and gone on to win the presidency.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Richard Baher adds:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">I do not see any new candidates entering the race, after being recruited by the so-called Republican establishment. The candidates who might have excited more Republican voters- Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, just did not and do not have the fire in the belly to run this cycle. If Obama wins in 2012, they will be around in 2016. Most worrying is the modest turnout last night- 122,000, about the same as in 2008, when GOP race was overshadowed by Obama-Clinton-Edwards fight in Iowa on the Democratic side. Most independents attended Democratic caucuses in 2008. Most of the independents who voted in GOP caucuses last night were new to the caucus process, and young Ron Paul voters, who likely will not back any GOP nominee other than Paul.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">The new attacks this week on Marco Rubio suggest that the left is already planning on facing a Romney Rubio ticket.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: small;">J. Robert Smith adds:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">The truth is Mitt Romney lost Iowa. Romney's presidential candidacy stretches back well before 2008. Romney's been stumping Iowa and spending lots of cash there for over four years. Still, Romney could only manage 25% of the vote, which is what he accomplished against the GOP field in '08. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">Romney's failure to breakout doesn't mean that he can't secure the Republican presidential nomination, he can. A healthy campaign war chest and unsexy but critical field organizations are Romney advantages. Still, Romney had those two advantages working for him in Iowa, and nearly out of nowhere, an under-resourced Rick Santorum surged to a virtual tie with the better provisioned and armed former Massachusetts governor. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">Romney's real edge is that conservative voters remain fractured. Would Rick Perry's and Michele Bachmann's voters have gone to Santorum had the two quit Iowa? Many of Perry's and Bachmann's voters would have done so, given that Santorum was the logical choice for conservative voters. (Newt Gingrich, always vulnerable, saw his fortunes flag after spending days on end in the GOP establishment and the mainstream media meat grinders.)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">New Hampshire is next, and it looks like a Romney win. After all, the New Hampshire primary is just a week away, hardly enough time for Santorum to <em>technically</em> change the dynamics there. Romney's Massachusetts is cheek and jowl to New Hampshire; the state boasts a large Massachusetts expatriate population. New Hampshire's primary is closed, meaning independents and Democrats can't wander over to the GOP side to make mischief. New Hampshire should be Romney stomping grounds. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">But New Hampshire - like Iowa, though more so - isn't about Romney winning; it's about expectations. If Romney doesn't have a substantial victory in New Hampshire (an outright majority of the votes), then the perception of Romney's viability could be further damaged.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">After Romney-friendly New Hampshire, come South Carolina and Florida, notably. South Carolina is red meat conservative country, and the Sunshine State has large conservative voter segments. <em>If</em> Santorum places well in New Hampshire, he'll appear all the more viable to southern conservatives anxious to nominate an A.B.M. (Anybody But Mitt) candidate. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">Expect Romney to unlimber his big guns against Santorum immediately. Santorum accomplished in Iowa what Romney's other challengers hadn't yet accomplished. Santorum collected real votes in a real ballot test and fought Romney to a dead heat.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">As a sixteen-year congressman and U.S. <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #009900; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">senator</span>, Santorum made plenty votes, some of which are <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-04/santorum-pro-labor-votes-lurk-as-rivals-attack-early-on-earmarks.html" style="color: #0033cc; text-decoration: none;">exploitable</a> for being un-conservative (Santorum had a taste for earmarks and Big Labor). Romney needs to knockdown Santorum as quickly as possible - and he needs to hope that Perry and Bachmann stay in the race longer. (Gingrich will stay in because the presidential contest is Newt's last hurrah).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><br />
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At issue is the constitutional requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen.” Some allege he was not born in the U.S. as he has claimed and, therefore, is not eligible.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; height: 600px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-top: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 160px;"><div id="div-gpt-ad-story160LeftSide" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="600" id="google_ads_iframe_/1016664/story160LeftSide_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/1016664/story160LeftSide_0" scrolling="no" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="160"></iframe></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://wnd.ha-hosting.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=375625" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #004240; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Others, including top constitutional expert Herb Titus,</a> contend that the term “natural-born citizen,” which is not defined in the Constitution, would have been understood when the document was written to mean the offspring of two U.S. citizens. That argument is supported by a 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court decision</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under that standard, Obama could not qualify, because his father, as identified on the “Certificate of Live Birth” image released by the White House, was a foreign national who came from Kenya to study in the U.S. and never was a citizen.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ruling came today from Judge Michael M. Malihi of the Georgia state Office of State Administrative Hearings.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Georgia, a state law requires “every candidate for federal” office who is certified by the state executive committees of a political party or who files a notice of candidacy “shall meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">State law also grants the secretary of state and any “elector who is eligible to vote for a candidate” in the state the authority to raise a challenge to a candidate’s qualifications, the judge determined.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While Obama’s attorney, Michael Jablonski, had argued that the requirements didn’t apply to candidates for a presidential primary, the judge said that isn’t how he reads state law.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Statutory provisions must be read as they are written, and this court finds that the cases cited by [Obama] are not controlling. When the court construes a constitutional or statutory provision, the ‘first step … is to examine the plain statutory language,” the judge wrote. “Section 21-2-1(a) states that ‘every candidate for federal and state office’ must meet the qualifications for holding that particular office, and this court has seen no case law limiting this provision, nor found any language that contains an exception for the office of president or stating that the provision does not apply to the presidential preference primary.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The decision from Malihi came as a result of a series of complaints that were consolidated by the court. They were brought against Obama’s inclusion on the 2012 election primary ballot by David Farrar, Leah Lax, Cody Judy, Thomas Malaren and Laurie Roth, represented by attorney <a href="http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #004240; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Orly Taitz;</a> David Weldon represented by attorney Van R. 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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barack Obama</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The judge’s decision was to refuse to dismiss the complaints, an action that had been sought by Obama. He also granted a motion to sever the cases, and he scheduled a hearing at 9 a.m. on Jan. 26 for the complaint brought by Weldon. Following immediately will be hearings for the cases brought by Swensson and Powell, and the issue raised by Farrar, Lax, Judy, Malaren and Roth will be third.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Malihi’s ruling said: “The court finds that defendant is a candidate for federal office who has been certified by the state executive committee of a political party, and therefore must, under Code Section 21-2-5, meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are similar challenges to Obama’s 2012 candidacy being raised before state election or other commissions in Tennessee, Arizona and New Hampshire as well.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taitz told WND she will present the decision to a court in Hawaii, where she is arguing to have access to Obama’s original birth documentation as it exists in the state, which for many years allowed relatives of babies to simply make a statement and register a birth, even though the child may not have been born in Hawaii.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irion had argued in his opposition to Obama’s demand to dismiss the concerns that, “The only fact relevant to this case is the fact that the defendant’s father was not a U.S. citizen. This fact has been repeatedly documented and stated by the party opponent, defendant Obama. This fact is also evidenced by plaintiff’s exhibit 6, previously submitted with plaintiff’s pre-trial order, and apparently authenticated by defendant’s citation to this exhibit in defendant’s ‘Statement of Material Facts Not in Dispute,’ number 7.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The lengths to which the defendant goes in order to avoid the one relevant fact is telling. The defendant asks this court to interpret Georgia election code in a way that leaves the code in conflict with itself, goes against the plain language of the law, leaves the law without meaning, and conflicts with common sense. He then cites freedom-to-associate precedent to support an assertion that has never been supported by such precedent, and which would nullify election codes in several states. All of these arguments are futile attempts to distract from the undeniable conclusion: Barack Obama is not constitutionally qualified to hold the office of president of the United States,” Irion wrote.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He continued, “It is true that some states lack election codes authorizing any state officials to screen candidate selections from political parties. In these states political parties have essentially unfettered authority to determine which candidates appear on ballots. However, these instances represent decisions of the states to not screen candidates. It is the states’ right to decide how to administer its elections. The fact that some states have decided to not protect their citizens from unqualified candidates does not mean that other states don’t have the right to screen candidates. It simply means that some states have left the screening to the political parties.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Georgia has determined that it is in the best interest of its citizens to screen candidates prior to placement on the ballot.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Because it is undisputed that Mr. Obama’s father was not a U.S. citizen, the defendant can never be a natural-born citizen, as that term was defined by the U.S. Supreme Court. Therefore, the defendant cannot meet the constitutional requirements to hold the office of president. See U.S. Const. Art. II Section 1.5 Georgia election code requires such a candidate to be stricken from any Georgia ballot.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The U.S. Supreme Court opinion cited is Minor v. Happersett from 1875. It includes one of very few references in the nation’s archives that addresses the definition of “natural-born citizen,” a requirement imposed by the U.S. Constitution on only the U.S. president.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That case states:</div><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.</div></blockquote><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irion said the goal would be an injunction that would deprive Obama of Democratic Party certification.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Without such certification from the party, Obama will not appear on any ballot in the 2012 general election,” his organization said in an announcement when the cases were launched.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liberty Legal said it is not addressing Obama’s place of birth or his birth certificate.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“These issues are completely irrelevant to the argument. LLF’s lawsuit simply points out that the Supreme Court has defined ‘natural-born citizen’ as a person born to two parents who were both U.S. citizens at the time of the natural-born citizen’s birth. Obama’s father was never a U.S. citizen. Therefore, Obama can never be a natural-born citizen. His place of birth is irrelevant,” the group said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=360645" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #004240; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WND has reported that Maricopa, Ariz., County Sheriff Joe Arpaio</a> has launched a formal law enforcement investigation into whether Obama may submit fraudulent documentation to be put on the state’s election ballot in 2012. A full report is expected within weeks.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The White House in April released an image of a “Certificate of Live Birth” from the state of Hawaii in support of Obama’s claim that he was born in the state. The White House has not addressed the questions raised by Obama’s father’s nationality. In addition, many computer, imaging, document and technology experts have stated the document image appears to be a forgery.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The image that the new lawsuits contend is irrelevant:</div><table align="center" border="0" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="622"><img alt="" height="771" src="http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/obamabirthcert.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 625px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="622" /><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama long-form birth certificate released April 27 by the White House</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://wnd.ha-hosting.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=375625" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #004240; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An extensive analysis of the issue was conducted by Titus,</a> who has taught constitutional law, common law and other subjects for 30 years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools. He also was the founding dean of the College of Law at Regent University, a trial attorney and special assistant U.S. attorney in the Department of Justice.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘Natural born citizen’ in relation to the office of president, and whether someone is eligible, was in the Constitution from the very beginning,” he said. “Another way of putting it; there is a law of the nature of citizenship. If you are a natural born citizen, you are a citizen according to the law of nature, not according to any positive statement in a Constitution or in a statute, but because of the very nature of your birth and the very nature of nations.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you “go back and look at what the law of nature would be or would require … that’s precisely what a natural born citizen is …. is one who is born to a father and mother each of whom is a citizen of the U.S. or whatever other country,” he said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Now what we’ve learned from the Hawaii birth certificate is that Mr. Obama’s father was not a citizen of the United States. His mother was, but he doesn’t qualify as a natural born citizen for the office of president.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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<tr id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610344" style="display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;"><td id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610341" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; display: table-cell; padding-bottom: 1.5pt; padding-left: 1.5pt; padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-top: 1.5pt; width: 508px;" width="100%"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610338"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610335"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610332"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610329"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610326"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610323"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610320"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610317"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610314"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610311"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610308"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610305"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610531"><div><div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 24pt;">Worth watching!!!!</span></span></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610530"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610529"><div><div><div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #0000e0; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000e0; font-size: 13.5pt;">It's incredible that this 1948 cartoon has come this close to depicting our current day situation. It's worth your time.</span></span></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span></span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">EVERY PERSON IN THE </span></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">USA</span></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;"> SHOULD SEE THIS! JUST THINK, THIS WAS FORECAST 62 YEARS AGO!</span></span></b></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">What can a cartoon produced in 1948, teach us today, that's of any value?<br />
You'd be very surprised! Pay close attention! Keep in mind this was done in '1948'.<br />
Keep telling yourself that as you view it.</span></b></span></span></div></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610528" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is one of the best I have ever seen. This should be viewed by every AMERICAN.</span></b></span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold;">Click on <u>1948 Cartoon</u> below - <i><u>See if you can recognize anyone from today!</u></i></span></span></b><br />
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</tbody></table><a href="http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html">1948 Cartoon</a><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Quote Du Jour:</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610661"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610658"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1325717034610655" style="color: green;">To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: green;"> Thomas Jefferson</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial;">www.hotair.com</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial;">www.realclearpolitics.com</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial;">www.quotationspage.com</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial;">www.americanthinker.com</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>W</b></span>hen you thought they (it) were gone, it rears it's ugly head. Yes, I am talking about ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) has come to the attention of the non-MSM media in the last couple of weeks. A group called NYCC, New York Communities for Change are dubiously connected to ACORN. The person who ran the New York ACORN office, Steve Kest, heads NYCC. They use the old ACORN office space, stationary, business cards, etc... They target door to door begging for donations to support the OWS protesters. They also pay people to protest and hold orange NYCC banners. Although, ACORN is now defunct and has been defunded by Congress, they are still a formidable foe. Many ACORN affiliated members protest that there is still an ACORN organization. I believe there is. Somehow, they are receiving large amounts of funding to further their causes. Is it coming from the tentacles of the George Soros machine? Is it coming from the Obamatuer machine? Our President endorses a group of losers that align themselves with communist, socialist, Nazis, anti-Semites, unions, anti-American, anti-capitalist anarchist who want to destroy our Constitution and Republic. Our President doubles down and sympathizes with these jobless losers. The protesters are a bunch of phonies. They are not dedicated to their cause. Ironically, the Police have been using infrared cameras to reveal the protesters aren't spending their nights at the protest camps. They probably are staying at a Courtyard by Marriott with free continental breakfast before a long day of being a menace to society. I wonder what will happen when the temperatures drop below freezing. Will the protesters move to Miami Beach? I don't think they have what it takes to weather the storm (no pun intended). They are misinformed, spoiled, unemployed sissies, wanting what other people have. I don't have time to protest, I work Monday through Friday. And sometimes on the weekend! If they realized why they don't have jobs, they would be camped in front of the White House. Obamatuer and his regime are the reason why they can't find a descent job. Regulations and Obamatuer's socialistic ideology smothers America's recession recovery. The OWS protesters should research the Dodd-Frank bill, if they did, they would be protesting in front of Chris Dodd's and Barney Frank's homes. This law is killing job creation and expansion. Dick "Turbin" Durbin sponsored the Bank ATM transaction fee which costs the American citizen more money. Don't blame the banks, blame the government for interfering in business they don't belong. I am not a big fan of banks. Maybe that is why congressional approval is at 9%. I think that cities will grow tired of the protesters and start evicting them from the parks and public areas. We will see some violence, however, the police will handle this event with professionalism and calmness. Of course, there will be arrests and videos showing the Police doing their job, but, they will fizzle out. Ironically, you would never see this type of behavior at a Tea Party rally. I've been to many Tea Party events and we always act respectable, friendly, patriotic, focused and you would never see the CPUSA or Socialist Party at our rallies. With the 2012 election fast approaching, this will hurt the democrats that are openly supporting the protesters. I hope it hurts the President. I think the American people embrace opposition and protesting, however, I don't believe they approve of trying to bring down America. <i>JK</i></span><br />
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<div class="titlebox" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/10/25/generation-why" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Generation 'Why?'</a></span></h2><div class="byline" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By <a href="http://spectator.org/people/david-n-bass" rel="author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #8e050c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">DAVID N. BASS</a> on 10.25.11 @ 6:09AM</span></span></div><div class="summary" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #9d9d9d; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why is Generation Y blaming capitalism and not Obama government for its misery?</span></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Young people are turning out in droves for Occupy Wall Street -- and its subsidiary protests in cities across the country -- because they're fed up with capitalism. Who they should be fed up with is President Obama.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sixty-six percent of voters under age 30 <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1031/young-voters-in-the-2008-election" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">supported</a> Obama in the 2008 presidential election. In theory, those votes were based on Obama's promise to restore America to a prosperous nation, though celebrity appeal played a major role, too. Three years later, how's that working for recent college graduates in the Millennial generation?</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not well. First on the list of disappointments is the gulf between Obama's promises and his conduct in office. As a senator, our soon-to-be 44th president <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2008-09-30/politics/campaign.wrap_1_rescue-plan-john-mccain-inaction?_s=PM:POLITICS" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">voted</a> for the original corporate bailout bill. Then, as chief executive, he crafted and pushed through his own version of stimulus in 2009. It was a colossal failure. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the president <a href="http://energy.gov/articles/vice-president-biden-announces-finalized-535-million-loan-guarantee-solyndra" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">has an affinity</a> for picking winners and losers in the private sector.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next is the hemorrhaging job market. The unemployment rate was 7.6 percent when Obama took office in January 2009. Now it's 9.1 percent. Employment statistics are far worse for Generation Y. Many college graduates can't -- or won't -- find a job.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Future prospects for economic security are dim. The Congressional Budget Office <a href="http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12212" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">estimates</a> that government debt could exceed 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product by 2021 and could approach 190 percent of GDP by 2035 -- about the time that millions of Millennials reach their prime earning years. The chief culprit is social spending. Young people are swiftly <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/09/its-social-spending-stupid" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">becoming</a> the debt-paying generation.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite those sobering realities, Obama's highest approval ratings are among members of Generation Y -- only upstaged by minorities and postgraduates. The latest Gallup <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/149966/Obama-September-Approval-Rating-Remains-Term-Low.aspx" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tracking poll</a> shows that young adults aged 18 to 29 give Obama an approval rating of 48 percent, compared to a rating of 41 percent in the general population.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That disconnect between young peoples' economic doldrums and the president's performance in office is a key subplot of the Occupy Wall Street narrative. Rather than see government policy as the reason for the financial meltdown and insipid economic growth, young people are taking to the streets to protest the capitalist system that provides their iPods and designer jeans.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's a positive development for the Obama administration. Projecting the blame for financial malaise on Wall Street also deflects the blame from the governmental policies that served as the foundation for the problem in the first place. Democrats want the focus on Wall Street -- and the alleged evils of free-market capitalism -- not Obama's record in office.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The unfortunate part is that conservatives share at least one of Occupy Wall Street's aims -- to end corporate bailouts. That could be a starting point for a reasonable discussion with Millennials on economic realities. But who are we kidding? The similarities end there. Occupiers despise corporate bailouts, but they relish individual bailouts. Make life fair, they say: Not just equality of opportunity, but equality of outcome.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That perspective appeals to Millennials sense of how life should be. Researchers have catalogued that Generation Y tends to expect a lot out of life without putting much in. In many cases, the safety net of moving back home with parents constitutes a mini bailout. The Occupy Wall Street mentality fits cozily with that.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It remains to be seen how much staying power the Occupy movement will have, and whether that will translate into momentum for Obama. Numbers gathered by former Clinton pollster Douglas Schoen don't give the president a reason to smile. "An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008," Schoen <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637082965745362.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wrote</a> in the<em> Wall Street Journal</em>. "Now 51% disapprove of the president while 44% approve, and only 48% say they will vote to re-elect him in 2012, while at least a quarter won't."</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite continuing to support him overall, young voters' fervor for Obama from 2008 has faded. Young voter turnout <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/156470/young-voter-turnout-fell-60-2008-2010-dems-wont-win-2012-if-trend-continues" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">dropped</a> 60 percent in 2010 compared to two years earlier. Even factoring in the mid-term nature of the election, that's a tough hill to scale. The Obama campaign will be hard pressed to reinvigorate young voters in 2012, even if the Occupy movement continues to swell in number.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the interim, Generation Y needs to ask a basic question: Why still support Obama?</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Pathetic Funnies:</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWyqIwcaRFhSXm18Ncqsf9gxtDTuPv8pxLPouwRpNHCvZEI2fjdrliVcQQnWIDsAkhxBdyNNXXRkokuyDejEC5Hb2J2WVAdQ3DTSesTRgAX5fZozDYi2MHMMX49HaOEAKSo1IztoQux2Nd/s1600/BO+no+jobs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWyqIwcaRFhSXm18Ncqsf9gxtDTuPv8pxLPouwRpNHCvZEI2fjdrliVcQQnWIDsAkhxBdyNNXXRkokuyDejEC5Hb2J2WVAdQ3DTSesTRgAX5fZozDYi2MHMMX49HaOEAKSo1IztoQux2Nd/s1600/BO+no+jobs.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nuff said.</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhQJD0GnM09cWXXHrIbtXPBi2a62Cv6EVCaEUShqGlFZ95gArjAfa2j9svMKHqVYMfQpQxtTdyhFpzJLonG5sLvejeP1yURC_X-YtmjfUqwn24AzhLBYDNumz8rOfGr7FXJgBvTJ2X4NX/s1600/Climax+police.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhQJD0GnM09cWXXHrIbtXPBi2a62Cv6EVCaEUShqGlFZ95gArjAfa2j9svMKHqVYMfQpQxtTdyhFpzJLonG5sLvejeP1yURC_X-YtmjfUqwn24AzhLBYDNumz8rOfGr7FXJgBvTJ2X4NX/s1600/Climax+police.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The government is involved in every aspect of our lives!</span></b></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hypocritical video of the week: Michael Moore</span></b></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/106903" title="MRC TV video player" width="640"></iframe></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Quote du jour:</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">‘Here’s to the crazy ones. ... They push the human race forward.’”</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Steve Jobs</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Writings of our Founding Fathers</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></span></div><h2 class="border" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 100%; color: blue; font: normal normal bold 105%/115% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">|| Federalist No. 85 ||</span></h2><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strong>Concluding Remarks</strong><br />
From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Author: <strong>Alexander Hamilton</strong><strong></strong></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ACCORDING to the formal division of the subject of these papers, announced in my first number, there would appear still to remain for discussion two points: "the analogy of the proposed government to your own State constitution," and "the additional security which its adoption will afford to republican government, to liberty, and to property." But these heads have been so fully anticipated and exhausted in the progress of the work, that it would now scarcely be possible to do any thing more than repeat, in a more dilated form, what has been heretofore said, which the advanced stage of the question, and the time already spent upon it, conspire to forbid.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is remarkable, that the resemblance of the plan of the convention to the act which organizes the government of this State holds, not less with regard to many of the supposed defects, than to the real excellences of the former. Among the pretended defects are the re-eligibility of the Executive, the want of a council, the omission of a formal bill of rights, the omission of a provision respecting the liberty of the press. These and several others which have been noted in the course of our inquiries are as much chargeable on the existing constitution of this State, as on the one proposed for the Union; and a man must have slender pretensions to consistency, who can rail at the latter for imperfections which he finds no difficulty in excusing in the former. Nor indeed can there be a better proof of the insincerity and affectation of some of the zealous adversaries of the plan of the convention among us, who profess to be the devoted admirers of the government under which they live, than the fury with which they have attacked that plan, for matters in regard to which our own constitution is equally or perhaps more vulnerable.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The additional securities to republican government, to liberty and to property, to be derived from the adoption of the plan under consideration, consist chiefly in the restraints which the preservation of the Union will impose on local factions and insurrections, and on the ambition of powerful individuals in single States, who may acquire credit and influence enough, from leaders and favorites, to become the despots of the people; in the diminution of the opportunities to foreign intrigue, which the dissolution of the Confederacy would invite and facilitate; in the prevention of extensive military establishments, which could not fail to grow out of wars between the States in a disunited situation; in the express guaranty of a republican form of government to each; in the absolute and universal exclusion of titles of nobility; and in the precautions against the repetition of those practices on the part of the State governments which have undermined the foundations of property and credit, have planted mutual distrust in the breasts of all classes of citizens, and have occasioned an almost universal prostration of morals.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thus have I, fellow-citizens, executed the task I had assigned to myself; with what success, your conduct must determine. I trust at least you will admit that I have not failed in the assurance I gave you respecting the spirit with which my endeavors should be conducted. I have addressed myself purely to your judgments, and have studiously avoided those asperities which are too apt to disgrace political disputants of all parties, and which have been not a little provoked by the language and conduct of the opponents of the Constitution. The charge of a conspiracy against the liberties of the people, which has been indiscriminately brought against the advocates of the plan, has something in it too wanton and too malignant, not to excite the indignation of every man who feels in his own bosom a refutation of the calumny. The perpetual changes which have been rung upon the wealthy, the well-born, and the great, have been such as to inspire the disgust of all sensible men. And the unwarrantable concealments and misrepresentations which have been in various ways practiced to keep the truth from the public eye, have been of a nature to demand the reprobation of all honest men. It is not impossible that these circumstances may have occasionally betrayed me into intemperances of expression which I did not intend; it is certain that I have frequently felt a struggle between sensibility and moderation; and if the former has in some instances prevailed, it must be my excuse that it has been neither often nor much.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let us now pause and ask ourselves whether, in the course of these papers, the proposed Constitution has not been satisfactorily vindicated from the aspersions thrown upon it; and whether it has not been shown to be worthy of the public approbation, and necessary to the public safety and prosperity. Every man is bound to answer these questions to himself, according to the best of his conscience and understanding, and to act agreeably to the genuine and sober dictates of his judgment. This is a duty from which nothing can give him a dispensation. 'This is one that he is called upon, nay, constrained by all the obligations that form the bands of society, to discharge sincerely and honestly. No partial motive, no particular interest, no pride of opinion, no temporary passion or prejudice, will justify to himself, to his country, or to his posterity, an improper election of the part he is to act. Let him beware of an obstinate adherence to party; let him reflect that the object upon which he is to decide is not a particular interest of the community, but the very existence of the nation; and let him remember that a majority of America has already given its sanction to the plan which he is to approve or reject.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I shall not dissemble that I feel an entire confidence in the arguments which recommend the proposed system to your adoption, and that I am unable to discern any real force in those by which it has been opposed. I am persuaded that it is the best which our political situation, habits, and opinions will admit, and superior to any the revolution has produced.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Concessions on the part of the friends of the plan, that it has not a claim to absolute perfection, have afforded matter of no small triumph to its enemies. "Why," say they, "should we adopt an imperfect thing? Why not amend it and make it perfect before it is irrevocably established?" This may be plausible enough, but it is only plausible. In the first place I remark, that the extent of these concessions has been greatly exaggerated. They have been stated as amounting to an admission that the plan is radically defective, and that without material alterations the rights and the interests of the community cannot be safely confided to it. This, as far as I have understood the meaning of those who make the concessions, is an entire perversion of their sense. No advocate of the measure can be found, who will not declare as his sentiment, that the system, though it may not be perfect in every part, is, upon the whole, a good one; is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit; and is such an one as promises every species of security which a reasonable people can desire.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I answer in the next place, that I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed. The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The reasons assigned in an excellent little pamphlet lately published in this city, <a href="" name="T1"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_85.html#1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">1</a>] are unanswerable to show the utter improbability of assembling a new convention, under circumstances in any degree so favorable to a happy issue, as those in which the late convention met, deliberated, and concluded. I will not repeat the arguments there used, as I presume the production itself has had an extensive circulation. It is certainly well worthy the perusal of every friend to his country. There is, however, one point of light in which the subject of amendments still remains to be considered, and in which it has not yet been exhibited to public view. I cannot resolve to conclude without first taking a survey of it in this aspect.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It appears to me susceptible of absolute demonstration, that it will be far more easy to obtain subsequent than previous amendments to the Constitution. The moment an alteration is made in the present plan, it becomes, to the purpose of adoption, a new one, and must undergo a new decision of each State. To its complete establishment throughout the Union, it will therefore require the concurrence of thirteen States. If, on the contrary, the Constitution proposed should once be ratified by all the States as it stands, alterations in it may at any time be effected by nine <a href="" name="T2"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_85.html#2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">2</a>] States. Here, then, the chances are as thirteen to nine in favor of subsequent amendment, rather than of the original adoption of an entire system.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is not all. Every Constitution for the United States must inevitably consist of a great variety of particulars, in which thirteen independent States are to be accommodated in their interests or opinions of interest. We may of course expect to see, in any body of men charged with its original formation, very different combinations of the parts upon different points. Many of those who form a majority on one question, may become the minority on a second, and an association dissimilar to either may constitute the majority on a third. Hence the necessity of moulding and arranging all the particulars which are to compose the whole, in such a manner as to satisfy all the parties to the compact; and hence, also, an immense multiplication of difficulties and casualties in obtaining the collective assent to a final act. The degree of that multiplication must evidently be in a ratio to the number of particulars and the number of parties.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But every amendment to the Constitution, if once established, would be a single proposition, and might be brought forward singly. There would then be no necessity for management or compromise, in relation to any other point no giving nor taking. The will of the requisite number would at once bring the matter to a decisive issue. And consequently, whenever nine, or rather ten States, were united in the desire of a particular amendment, that amendment must infallibly take place. There can, therefore, be no comparison between the facility of affecting an amendment, and that of establishing in the first instance a complete Constitution.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In opposition to the probability of subsequent amendments, it has been urged that the persons delegated to the administration of the national government will always be disinclined to yield up any portion of the authority of which they were once possessed. For my own part I acknowledge a thorough conviction that any amendments which may, upon mature consideration, be thought useful, will be applicable to the organization of the government, not to the mass of its powers; and on this account alone, I think there is no weight in the observation just stated. I also think there is little weight in it on another account. The intrinsic difficulty of governing thirteen States at any rate, independent of calculations upon an ordinary degree of public spirit and integrity, will, in my opinion constantly impose on the national rulers the necessity of a spirit of accommodation to the reasonable expectations of their constituents. But there is yet a further consideration, which proves beyond the possibility of a doubt, that the observation is futile. It is this that the national rulers, whenever nine States concur, will have no option upon the subject. By the fifth article of the plan, the Congress will be obliged "on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the States (which at present amount to nine), to call a convention for proposing amendments, which shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof." The words of this article are peremptory. The Congress "shall call a convention." Nothing in this particular is left to the discretion of that body. And of consequence, all the declamation about the disinclination to a change vanishes in air. Nor however difficult it may be supposed to unite two thirds or three fourths of the State legislatures, in amendments which may affect local interests, can there be any room to apprehend any such difficulty in a union on points which are merely relative to the general liberty or security of the people. We may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If the foregoing argument is a fallacy, certain it is that I am myself deceived by it, for it is, in my conception, one of those rare instances in which a political truth can be brought to the test of a mathematical demonstration. Those who see the matter in the same light with me, however zealous they may be for amendments, must agree in the propriety of a previous adoption, as the most direct road to their own object.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The zeal for attempts to amend, prior to the establishment of the Constitution, must abate in every man who is ready to accede to the truth of the following observations of a writer equally solid and ingenious: "To balance a large state or society Usays hee, whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able, by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it. The judgments of many must unite in the work; experience must guide their labor; time must bring it to perfection, and the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes which they INEVITABLY fall into in their first trials and experiments." <a href="" name="T3"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_85.html#3" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">3</a>] These judicious reflections contain a lesson of moderation to all the sincere lovers of the Union, and ought to put them upon their guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagoguery, in the pursuit of what they are not likely to obtain, but from time and experience. It may be in me a defect of political fortitude, but I acknowledge that I cannot entertain an equal tranquillity with those who affect to treat the dangers of a longer continuance in our present situation as imaginary. A nation, without a national government, is, in my view, an awful spectacle. The establishment of a Constitution, in time of profound peace, by the voluntary consent of a whole people, is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety. I can reconcile it to no rules of prudence to let go the hold we now have, in so arduous an enterprise, upon seven out of the thirteen States, and after having passed over so considerable a part of the ground, to recommence the course. I dread the more the consequences of new attempts, because I know that powerful individuals, in this and in other States, are enemies to a general national government in every possible shape.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>PUBLIUS.</em></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="" name="1"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_85.html#T1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">1.</a> Entitled "An Address to the People of the State of New York."</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="" name="2"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_85.html#T2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">2.</a> It may rather be said TEN, for though two thirds may set on foot the measure, three fourths must ratify.</span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="" name="3"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_85.html#T3" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">3.</a> Hume's "Essays," vol. i., page 128: "The Rise of Arts and Sciences."</span></div><div id="main_nav_bot" style="background-color: #eff6fd; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Being a member of the Tea Party, I must complain how the media is guilty of "dereliction of duty." Not that I'm surprised, but extremely disappointed. The journalists are so obvious in the bias way of reporting. It is sad for America that we, the greatest and free-ist country in the world, has a news industry that operates like the Russian's Tass news agency. One news agency said they couldn't find the communist party, socialist party, any violence or arrest and the anti-Semitic activity. However, a conservative leaning news agency went down to Wall Street and found all of these entities. Do the occupiers really believe that we, regular Americans, will allow them to fundamentally change this great nation? If they threaten with violence, do they not think that we would not defend our country and way of life? Even if it meant violence to counter violence? Obama and Pelosi are standing with the protesters knowing that the CPUSA, socialist party and Moveon.org (George Soros) are involved with the OWS weenies. I am hoping that this will backfire on the anointed one and hurt his re-election prospects. Pelosi is senile and just needs to go away. I was watching the boob tube laughing at the pathetic OWS protesters screaming and pleading with anyone who will lend them an ear, screaming "join us" and "help us" and "this is the start of something real." The numbers of these idiots are relatively small. If you look at the Tea Party rallies, there are hundreds of thousands of people, cordial, friendly, clean and purpose driven. The OWS protesters only have a few thousand here and there. One point though, some of the leaders of this debacle are connected to unions, leaders of communist and socialist parties, anarchists, anti-Semites and other anti-capitalist organizations. We know who our enemies are, what I mean by enemies is the organizations that are trying to change our country into a western European socialist, entitlement-laden country. Many of the main stream media have said that the Tea Party has lost it's mojo. I don't think so. In the coming months, I will</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> implore you all to get involved in this election process. November is coming quickly. In my opinion, the 2012 election will be the most important election in our lifetime. Why, because if Obama could win a second term, he would perpetuate an agenda that would make the first term look like he was a conservative. He wouldn't have to worry about running another campaign and would push health care, environmental issues, class warfare and spending to levels we could not dream of, or have nightmares about. Not to mention, the plethora of socialistic policies he never got around to exploiting. In November, we must take the Senate and the Presidency. Period! This would allow the country to start repairing the damage Obama and his sycophants created. It won't happen quickly, but it will happen. A Republican President and Congress would right the wrongs of the left and allow small business to do what they do, create jobs. Then, you will see this great nation turn around with drilling for oil and natural gas, employing thousands and thousands of people. Downsizing the EPA and IRS, rein in the Fed, stop spending money we don't have and giving money to countries (enemies) that hate us. As patriotic Americans, like our forefathers, we will persevere!</span><br />
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Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway.</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="subhead" style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; font: italic normal normal 1.6em/1.1 Georgia, 'Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: none; width: 668px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: 10px;">By <a href="http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=DOUGLAS+SCHOEN&bylinesearch=true" style="color: #093d72; letter-spacing: 1px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">DOUGLAS SCHOEN</a></span></h2></div></div><div class="mastertextCenter" id="articleTabs_panel_article" style="clear: both; height: 3269px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"><div class="padding-left-big" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="col6wide colOverflowTruncated" id="article_story" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 571px; z-index: 10;"><div class="article story" id="article_story_body" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px;"><div class="articlePage" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost them the 2012 election.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Last week, senior White House adviser David Plouffe said that "the protests you're seeing are the same conversations people are having in living rooms and kitchens all across America. . . . People are frustrated by an economy that does not reward hard work and responsibility, where Wall Street and Main Street don't seem to play by the same set of rules." 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<div class="targetCaption" style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrators in the financial district of New York</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Yet the Occupy Wall Street movement reflects values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people—and particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform.</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620ZLG"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620GBI"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620CCI"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008. Now 51% disapprove of the president while 44% approve, and only 48% say they will vote to re-elect him in 2012, while at least a quarter won't vote.</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620EVH"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Fewer than one in three (32%) call 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href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620ZG"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">What binds a large majority of the protesters together—regardless of age, socioeconomic status or education—is a deep commitment to left-wing policies: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth, intense regulation of the private sector, and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas.</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620E0"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Sixty-five percent say that government has a moral responsibility to guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirement—no matter the cost. By a large margin (77%-22%), they support raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but 58% oppose raising taxes for everybody, with only 36% in favor. And by a close margin, protesters are divided on whether the bank bailouts were necessary (49%) or unnecessary (51%).</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U5030227216206ND"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Thus Occupy Wall Street is a group of engaged progressives who are disillusioned with the capitalist system and have a distinct activist orientation. Among the general public, by contrast, 41% of Americans self-identify as conservative, 36% as moderate, and only 21% as liberal. That's why the Obama-Pelosi embrace of the movement could prove catastrophic for their party.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">In 1970, aligning too closely with the antiwar movement hurt Democrats in the midterm election, when many middle-class and working-class Americans ended up supporting hawkish candidates who condemned student disruptions. While that 1970 election should have been a sweep against the first-term Nixon administration, it was instead one of only four midterm elections since 1938 when the president's party didn't lose seats.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620BYE"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">With the Democratic Party on the defensive throughout the 1970 campaign, liberal Democrats were only able to win on Election Day by distancing themselves from the student protest movement. So Adlai Stevenson III pinned an American flag to his lapel, appointed Chicago Seven prosecutor Thomas Foran chairman of his Citizen's Committee, and emphasized "law and order"—a tactic then employed by Ted Kennedy, who denounced the student protesters as "campus commandos" who must be repudiated, "especially by those who may share their goals."</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="U503022721620SPB"></a></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Today, having abandoned any effort to work with the congressional super committee to craft a bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction, President Obama has thrown in with those who support his desire to tax oil companies and the rich, rather than appeal to independent and self-described moderate swing voters who want smaller government and lower taxes, not additional stimulus or interference in the private sector.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Rather than embracing huge new spending programs and tax increases, plus increasingly radical and potentially violent activists, the Democrats should instead build a bridge to the much more numerous independents and moderates in the center by opposing bailouts and broad-based tax increases.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;">Put simply, Democrats need to say they are with voters in the middle who want cooperation, conciliation and lower taxes. And they should work particularly hard to contrast their rhetoric with the extremes advocated by the Occupy Wall Street crowd.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">Mr. Schoen, who served as a pollster for President Bill Clinton, is author of "Hopelessly Divided: The New Crisis in American Politics and What It Means for 2012 and Beyond," forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield.</em></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><em style="font-style: italic;"><b>>>>>>Doug nails it again.<<<<<<</b></em></span></span></div><div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><em style="font-style: italic;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Pathetic Funnies:</span></b></em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr0KUyH6yKJmR3DAhabXdjzJizCWSx6OQGOrukDO68u38fqJFz1L8czHFghC6osLMN7gH3EzRk0sC3AhXGWi2vS01XMal3r5mNX8G8AM6CrV267udkvCRUPetvb0a8aOvvBSrPXXlYeF5/s1600/Green+is+the+new+red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr0KUyH6yKJmR3DAhabXdjzJizCWSx6OQGOrukDO68u38fqJFz1L8czHFghC6osLMN7gH3EzRk0sC3AhXGWi2vS01XMal3r5mNX8G8AM6CrV267udkvCRUPetvb0a8aOvvBSrPXXlYeF5/s320/Green+is+the+new+red.jpg" width="244" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Author: <strong>Alexander Hamilton</strong><strong></strong></span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have appeared against it. There, however, remain a few which either did not fall naturally under any particular head or were forgotten in their proper places. These shall now be discussed; but as the subject has been drawn into great length, I shall so far consult brevity as to comprise all my observations on these miscellaneous points in a single paper.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The most considerable of the remaining objections is that the plan of the convention contains no bill of rights. Among other answers given to this, it has been upon different occasions remarked that the constitutions of several of the States are in a similar predicament. I add that New York is of the number. And yet the opposers of the new system, in this State, who profess an unlimited admiration for its constitution, are among the most intemperate partisans of a bill of rights. To justify their zeal in this matter, they allege two things: one is that, though the constitution of New York has no bill of rights prefixed to it, yet it contains, in the body of it, various provisions in favor of particular privileges and rights, which, in substance amount to the same thing; the other is, that the Constitution adopts, in their full extent, the common and statute law of Great Britain, by which many other rights, not expressed in it, are equally secured.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the first I answer, that the Constitution proposed by the convention contains, as well as the constitution of this State, a number of such provisions.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Independent of those which relate to the structure of the government, we find the following: Article 1, section 3, clause 7 "Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law." Section 9, of the same article, clause 2 "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." Clause 3 "No bill of attainder or ex-post-facto law shall be passed." Clause 7 "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." Article 3, section 2, clause 3 "The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed." Section 3, of the same article "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." And clause 3, of the same section "The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted." It may well be a question, whether these are not, upon the whole, of equal importance with any which are to be found in the constitution of this State. The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus, the prohibition of ex-post-facto laws, and of TITLES OF NOBILITY, TO WHICH WE HAVE NO CORRESPONDING PROVISION IN OUR CONSTITUTION, are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it contains. The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact, or, in other words, the subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. The observations of the judicious Blackstone, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="T1"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html#1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">1</a>] in reference to the latter, are well worthy of recital: "To bereave a man of life, Usays he,e or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore A MORE DANGEROUS ENGINE of arbitrary government." And as a remedy for this fatal evil he is everywhere peculiarly emphatical in his encomiums on the habeas-corpus act, which in one place he calls "the BULWARK of the British Constitution."<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="T2"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html#2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">2</a>]</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nothing need be said to illustrate the importance of the prohibition of titles of nobility. This may truly be denominated the corner-stone of republican government; for so long as they are excluded, there can never be serious danger that the government will be any other than that of the people.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the second that is, to the pretended establishment of the common and state law by the Constitution, I answer, that they are expressly made subject "to such alterations and provisions as the legislature shall from time to time make concerning the same." They are therefore at any moment liable to repeal by the ordinary legislative power, and of course have no constitutional sanction. The only use of the declaration was to recognize the ancient law and to remove doubts which might have been occasioned by the Revolution. This consequently can be considered as no part of a declaration of rights, which under our constitutions must be intended as limitations of the power of the government itself.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince. Such was MAGNA CHARTA, obtained by the barons, sword in hand, from King John. Such were the subsequent confirmations of that charter by succeeding princes. Such was the PETITION OF RIGHT assented to by Charles I., in the beginning of his reign. Such, also, was the Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of parliament called the Bill of Rights. It is evident, therefore, that, according to their primitive signification, they have no application to constitutions professedly founded upon the power of the people, and executed by their immediate representatives and servants. Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing; and as they retain every thing they have no need of particular reservations. "WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ORDAIN and ESTABLISH this Constitution for the United States of America." Here is a better recognition of popular rights, than volumes of those aphorisms which make the principal figure in several of our State bills of rights, and which would sound much better in a treatise of ethics than in a constitution of government.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But a minute detail of particular rights is certainly far less applicable to a Constitution like that under consideration, which is merely intended to regulate the general political interests of the nation, than to a constitution which has the regulation of every species of personal and private concerns. If, therefore, the loud clamors against the plan of the convention, on this score, are well founded, no epithets of reprobation will be too strong for the constitution of this State. But the truth is, that both of them contain all which, in relation to their objects, is reasonably to be desired.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power. They might urge with a semblance of reason, that the Constitution ought not to be charged with the absurdity of providing against the abuse of an authority which was not given, and that the provision against restraining the liberty of the press afforded a clear implication, that a power to prescribe proper regulations concerning it was intended to be vested in the national government. This may serve as a specimen of the numerous handles which would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers, by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">On the subject of the liberty of the press, as much as has been said, I cannot forbear adding a remark or two: in the first place, I observe, that there is not a syllable concerning it in the constitution of this State; in the next, I contend, that whatever has been said about it in that of any other State, amounts to nothing. What signifies a declaration, that "the liberty of the press shall be inviolably preserved"? What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition which would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion? I hold it to be impracticable; and from this I infer, that its security, whatever fine declarations may be inserted in any constitution respecting it, must altogether depend on public opinion, and on the general spirit of the people and of the government. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="T3"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html#3" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">3</a>] And here, after all, as is intimated upon another occasion, must we seek for the only solid basis of all our rights.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">There remains but one other view of this matter to conclude the point. The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS. The several bills of rights in Great Britain form its Constitution, and conversely the constitution of each State is its bill of rights. And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union. Is it one object of a bill of rights to declare and specify the political privileges of the citizens in the structure and administration of the government? This is done in the most ample and precise manner in the plan of the convention; comprehending various precautions for the public security, which are not to be found in any of the State constitutions. Is another object of a bill of rights to define certain immunities and modes of proceeding, which are relative to personal and private concerns? This we have seen has also been attended to, in a variety of cases, in the same plan. Adverting therefore to the substantial meaning of a bill of rights, it is absurd to allege that it is not to be found in the work of the convention. It may be said that it does not go far enough, though it will not be easy to make this appear; but it can with no propriety be contended that there is no such thing. It certainly must be immaterial what mode is observed as to the order of declaring the rights of the citizens, if they are to be found in any part of the instrument which establishes the government. And hence it must be apparent, that much of what has been said on this subject rests merely on verbal and nominal distinctions, entirely foreign from the substance of the thing.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Another objection which has been made, and which, from the frequency of its repetition, it is to be presumed is relied on, is of this nature: "It is improper Usay the objectorse to confer such large powers, as are proposed, upon the national government, because the seat of that government must of necessity be too remote from many of the States to admit of a proper knowledge on the part of the constituent, of the conduct of the representative body." This argument, if it proves any thing, proves that there ought to be no general government whatever. For the powers which, it seems to be agreed on all hands, ought to be vested in the Union, cannot be safely intrusted to a body which is not under every requisite control. But there are satisfactory reasons to show that the objection is in reality not well founded. There is in most of the arguments which relate to distance a palpable illusion of the imagination. What are the sources of information by which the people in Montgomery County must regulate their judgment of the conduct of their representatives in the State legislature? Of personal observation they can have no benefit. This is confined to the citizens on the spot. They must therefore depend on the information of intelligent men, in whom they confide; and how must these men obtain their information? Evidently from the complexion of public measures, from the public prints, from correspondences with theirrepresentatives, and with other persons who reside at the place of their deliberations. This does not apply to Montgomery County only, but to all the counties at any considerable distance from the seat of government.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It is equally evident that the same sources of information would be open to the people in relation to the conduct of their representatives in the general government, and the impediments to a prompt communication which distance may be supposed to create, will be overbalanced by the effects of the vigilance of the State governments. The executive and legislative bodies of each State will be so many sentinels over the persons employed in every department of the national administration; and as it will be in their power to adopt and pursue a regular and effectual system of intelligence, they can never be at a loss to know the behavior of those who represent their constituents in the national councils, and can readily communicate the same knowledge to the people. Their disposition to apprise the community of whatever may prejudice its interests from another quarter, may be relied upon, if it were only from the rivalship of power. And we may conclude with the fullest assurance that the people, through that channel, will be better informed of the conduct of their national representatives, than they can be by any means they now possess of that of their State representatives.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It ought also to be remembered that the citizens who inhabit the country at and near the seat of government will, in all questions that affect the general liberty and prosperity, have the same interest with those who are at a distance, and that they will stand ready to sound the alarm when necessary, and to point out the actors in any pernicious project. The public papers will be expeditious messengers of intelligence to the most remote inhabitants of the Union.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Among the many curious objections which have appeared against the proposed Constitution, the most extraordinary and the least colorable is derived from the want of some provision respecting the debts due TO the United States. This has been represented as a tacit relinquishment of those debts, and as a wicked contrivance to screen public defaulters. The newspapers have teemed with the most inflammatory railings on this head; yet there is nothing clearer than that the suggestion is entirely void of foundation, the offspring of extreme ignorance or extreme dishonesty. In addition to the remarks I have made upon the subject in another place, I shall only observe that as it is a plain dictate of common-sense, so it is also an established doctrine of political law, that "STATES NEITHER LOSE ANY OF THEIR RIGHTS, NOR ARE DISCHARGED FROM ANY OF THEIR OBLIGATIONS, BY A CHANGE IN THE FORM OF THEIR CIVIL GOVERNMENT." The last objection of any consequence, which I at present recollect, turns upon the article of expense. If it were even true, that the adoption of the proposed government would occasion a considerable increase of expense, it would be an objection that ought to have no weight against the plan.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The great bulk of the citizens of America are with reason convinced, that Union is the basis of their political happiness. Men of sense of all parties now, with few exceptions, agree that it cannot be preserved under the present system, nor without radical alterations; that new and extensive powers ought to be granted to the national head, and that these require a different organization of the federal government a single body being an unsafe depositary of such ample authorities. In conceding all this, the question of expense must be given up; for it is impossible, with any degree of safety, to narrow the foundation upon which the system is to stand. The two branches of the legislature are, in the first instance, to consist of only sixty-five persons, which is the same number of which Congress, under the existing Confederation, may be composed. It is true that this number is intended to be increased; but this is to keep pace with the progress of the population and resources of the country. It is evident that a less number would, even in the first instance, have been unsafe, and that a continuance of the present number would, in a more advanced stage of population, be a very inadequate representation of the people.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Whence is the dreaded augmentation of expense to spring? One source indicated, is the multiplication of offices under the new government. Let us examine this a little.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It is evident that the principal departments of the administration under the present government, are the same which will be required under the new. There are now a Secretary of War, a Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a Secretary for Domestic Affairs, a Board of Treasury, consisting of three persons, a Treasurer, assistants, clerks, etc. These officers are indispensable under any system, and will suffice under the new as well as the old. As to ambassadors and other ministers and agents in foreign countries, the proposed Constitution can make no other difference than to render their characters, where they reside, more respectable, and their services more useful. As to persons to be employed in the collection of the revenues, it is unquestionably true that these will form a very considerable addition to the number of federal officers; but it will not follow that this will occasion an increase of public expense. It will be in most cases nothing more than an exchange of State for national officers. In the collection of all duties, for instance, the persons employed will be wholly of the latter description. The States individually will stand in no need of any for this purpose. What difference can it make in point of expense to pay officers of the customs appointed by the State or by the United States? There is no good reason to suppose that either the number or the salaries of the latter will be greater than those of the former.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Where then are we to seek for those additional articles of expense which are to swell the account to the enormous size that has been represented to us? The chief item which occurs to me respects the support of the judges of the United States. I do not add the President, because there is now a president of Congress, whose expenses may not be far, if any thing, short of those which will be incurred on account of the President of the United States. The support of the judges will clearly be an extra expense, but to what extent will depend on the particular plan which may be adopted in regard to this matter. But upon no reasonable plan can it amount to a sum which will be an object of material consequence.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Let us now see what there is to counterbalance any extra expense that may attend the establishment of the proposed government. The first thing which presents itself is that a great part of the business which now keeps Congress sitting through the year will be transacted by the President. Even the management of foreign negotiations will naturally devolve upon him, according to general principles concerted with the Senate, and subject to their final concurrence. Hence it is evident that a portion of the year will suffice for the session of both the Senate and the House of Representatives; we may suppose about a fourth for the latter and a third, or perhaps half, for the former. The extra business of treaties and appointments may give this extra occupation to the Senate. From this circumstance we may infer that, until the House of Representatives shall be increased greatly beyond its present number, there will be a considerable saving of expense from the difference between the constant session of the present and the temporary session of the future Congress.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But there is another circumstance of great importance in the view of economy. The business of the United States has hitherto occupied the State legislatures, as well as Congress. The latter has made requisitions which the former have had to provide for. Hence it has happened that the sessions of the State legislatures have been protracted greatly beyond what was necessary for the execution of the mere local business of the States. More than half their time has been frequently employed in matters which related to the United States. Now the members who compose the legislatures of the several States amount to two thousand and upwards, which number has hitherto performed what under the new system will be done in the first instance by sixty-five persons, and probably at no future period by above a fourth or fifth of that number. The Congress under the proposed government will do all the business of the United States themselves, without the intervention of the State legislatures, who thenceforth will have only to attend to the affairs of their particular States, and will not have to sit in any proportion as long as they have heretofore done. This difference in the time of the sessions of the State legislatures will be clear gain, and will alone form an article of saving, which may be regarded as an equivalent for any additional objects of expense that may be occasioned by the adoption of the new system.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The result from these observations is that the sources of additional expense from the establishment of the proposed Constitution are much fewer than may have been imagined; that they are counterbalanced by considerable objects of saving; and that while it is questionable on which side the scale will preponderate, it is certain that a government less expensive would be incompetent to the purposes of the Union.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">PUBLIUS.</span></em></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="1"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html#T1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">1.</a> Vide Blackstone's "Commentaries," vol. 1., p. 136.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="2"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html#T2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">2.</a> Vide Blackstone's "Commentaries," vol. iv., p. 438.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=3959906782817589811" name="3"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html#T3" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">3.</a> To show that there is a power in the Constitution by which the liberty of the press may be affected, recourse has been had to the power of taxation. It is said that duties may be laid upon the publications so high as to amount to a prohibition. I know not by what logic it could be maintained, that the declarations in the State constitutions, in favor of the freedom of the press, would be a constitutional impediment to the imposition of duties upon publications by the State legislatures. It cannot certainly be pretended that any degree of duties, however low, would be an abridgment of the liberty of the press. We know that newspapers are taxed in Great Britain, and yet it is notorious that the press nowhere enjoys greater liberty than in that country. And if duties of any kind may be laid without a violation of that liberty, it is evident that the extent must depend on legislative discretion, respecting the liberty of the press, will give it no greater security than it will have without them. 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-_6xIddAaXRsfjCzxOcqBkuD0Q4olObV4XMZA8sWvSA-IqoJFIQ6OOHFbO6q01RonqcdGFQ7hyYrhCjv2yiVChXKxOzpAQA-o9BT-wj2fgQcWMxdx1LRFzWWxUeJMqUvbViYJ4RQzCBj/s1600/ay+poor+tax+of+%252415.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-_6xIddAaXRsfjCzxOcqBkuD0Q4olObV4XMZA8sWvSA-IqoJFIQ6OOHFbO6q01RonqcdGFQ7hyYrhCjv2yiVChXKxOzpAQA-o9BT-wj2fgQcWMxdx1LRFzWWxUeJMqUvbViYJ4RQzCBj/s320/ay+poor+tax+of+%252415.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The real meaning of "fair share."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i> </i></b></span>By: Mistahlee</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Recently, President Obama (and his handlers) latched onto the phrase “fair share” in a big way. He recited it incessantly in speeches and public remarks. “The richest individuals and wealthiest corporations” must be made to pay their “fair share.” In the President’s view, they are not.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Responders on the right pointed out that 1% of American earners, the highest 1%, pay 40% of all income taxes – while the lowest 15% of American earners pay no income tax at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, they ask, what’s unfair about that?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s surprising how small of an impression that seemingly irrefutable response makes on the left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprising until one listens closely and thinks deeper. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The response from the right assumes that one’s “fair share” means a reasonable percentage of one’s income – maybe higher for the highest earners and lower for the lowest – but still reasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus Bill O’Reily, for example, put the question to guest after guest:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What would be my fair share?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never got a straight answer.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The percentage approach cuts no ice with the left because, at bottom, the left sees it differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Fair share” is measured not by how much one pays, but by how much one has left after paying. There is “great disparity” between the richest and poorest in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the notion of “fair share,” in the minds of those on the left, means the elimination of that disparity through redistribution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one has too much left after paying one’s taxes, one obviously has not paid one’s “fair share.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The question that should be put to the advocates of “fair share,” to smoke out their true intention, is not: “What would be my fair share?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is “How much would it be fair for me to keep?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, Mr. O’Reily got an answer to that unspoken question from one guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When O’Reily informed the guest that he already pays more than 50% of his income to taxes, the guest said:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You can afford more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re rich.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the left, the concept of “fair share,” means how much one can “afford” which, necessarily, implicates how much one should “have.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If the President were to speak frankly and openly, he would say something like:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nobody needs more than (some number, say, a million dollars) a year to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal is to see that nobody keeps more than that.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the President and others on the left won’t say that – yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Or maybe they will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week self-proclaimed presidential candidate Rosanne Barr outlined one plank of her platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ms. Barr favors “the return of the guillotine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 1in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the re-education camps and if that doesn't help, then being beheaded.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Muddled but clear enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>Obama and his Fair share tax rhetoric:</b></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TJVFqG7bNlQ?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TJVFqG7bNlQ?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Senator Rand Paul on Obama's job speech:</b></span><br />
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</o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><h1 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;">Can Herman Cain win the Republican nomination? </h1><div style="line-height: 18px;">So far, I really like Herman Cain. I still haven't made a decision, however, this candidate is growing on me. Honestly, I will vote for any republican to defeat Obama. I believe Cain could be what we need for this country at this time. Romney is not a true conservative, Perry lost me when he came out for in state tuition for illegals. I like Michelle Bachmann, but I don't think she can pull it off and win the nomination. She doesn't receive any press or television time. When I read what Ron Paul says, it makes a lot of sense. When I see him speak, I feel he is a little quirky. I'm not a fan of his foreign policy. Newt Gringrich is a very intelligent man, however, I think he is too far behind concerning his campaign issues and the states are moving up their caucuses early for him to win. John Huntsman, Buddy Roamer and Rick Santorum should bail out for the good of the party. As patriotic Americans, I implore you to get involved and learn about these candidates. We must win back the Presidency and the Senate to start to heal our great country and put people back to work. Also, to repair the integrity of the office of the Presidency. The country will fail as a republic if Obama was re-elected. </div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PRINTER-FRIENDLY</a></small></h4></div><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 520px;">Herman Cain’s days of running a shoestring operation may be coming to an end. Responding to concerns about the lack of significant staff, Cain promised that his campaign would <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Cain-vows-to-add-staff-campaign-more-aggressively-2215076.php" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shortly begin hiring</a> to meet the demands on a front-running candidate:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #c8c8c8; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 480px;"><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 460px;">Seizing modest momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, businessman <a href="http://www.chron.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Herman+Cain%22" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Herman Cain</a> promised to invest in additional staff and campaign more aggressively in New Hampshire and Iowa.</div><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 460px;">“We have run this very lean by design. We are now going to ramp up,” he told reporters near the <a href="http://www.chron.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22New+Hampshire+State+House%22" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">New Hampshire State House</a> Wednesday afternoon. “We now have the money to do so. I didn’t want to get out in front and commit to spending a whole lot of money before I knew that the American people were going to say, ‘You know what? This long shot may not be such a long shot.’”</div></blockquote><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 520px;">Cain also declared an end to his book tour, which had drawn criticism as a sign of a lack of seriousness:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #c8c8c8; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 480px;"><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 460px;">Cain has put little effort into visiting early voting states or building a ground game in the states where presidential contests are typically won and lost. Cain launched a recent book tour that fueled speculation he was more interested in profiting from his growing national profile than winning the election.</div><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 460px;">“The book tour is over,” Cain declared Wednesday, vowing to add staff in New Hampshire and Iowa and bring his campaign bus to the Granite State in the coming weeks. He hadn’t visited New Hampshire since midsummer.</div></blockquote><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 520px;">The most significant part of this story is Cain’s statement that they have enough money flowing into the campaign to compete in Iowa and New Hampshire. The latter is a long shot, and Cain might be better advised to focus on South Carolina, given Mitt Romney’s advantage in the Granite State. Cain’s probably not drawing so much cash that he can afford to blow it on a state he’s likely to lose. South Carolina will be a more fertile ground for Cain’s combination of fiscal and social policies, and a win in Iowa and South Carolina would put him on good footing in the early days of primary voting.</div><div style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 520px;">Still, the expansion comes at a time when some wondered whether Cain could develop a ground organization that would produce votes. His recent rise in polling has taken place almost entirely in the fourth quarter, so we won’t get a look at Cain’s finances for another three months. It’s not surprising that his strong debate performances in the past two weeks has produced a boom in contributions, and with Perry’s continued struggles in these forums, some of the anybody-but-Romney donors might shift from Perry to Cain immediately. If Cain can produce another robust performance next Tuesday in Las Vegas, where the other candidates will undoubtedly attack Cain on foreign policy rather than economics, that Perry-to-Cain drift might accelerate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iNbY2MaYuYb3S2nqNkwIoA8JTwx8UP5n3gwT5T4DYyvLADIup0rNEkWp9-7PdEP9GI9CkGuoHbGKxzWaJvTp7sfPRraeywaAOcWZ6RHcvCNTtgwxnI71mWOeUdSHKeIMaa9DAWCwXgYD/s1600/Cain+%2526+Unable.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iNbY2MaYuYb3S2nqNkwIoA8JTwx8UP5n3gwT5T4DYyvLADIup0rNEkWp9-7PdEP9GI9CkGuoHbGKxzWaJvTp7sfPRraeywaAOcWZ6RHcvCNTtgwxnI71mWOeUdSHKeIMaa9DAWCwXgYD/s320/Cain+%2526+Unable.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br />
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Herman Cain is running for president. He’s not a career politician (in fact he has never held political office). He’s known as a pizza guy, but there’s a lot more to him. He’s also a computer guy, a banker guy, and a rocket scientist guy.</span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here’s his bio:</span></span></span><ul style="display: block; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="disc"><li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Master’s degree in Computer Science.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).</span></span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!</span></span></span><ul style="display: block; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="disc"><li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side.</span></span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!</span></span></span><ul style="display: block; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="disc"><li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country). This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system.</span></span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!</span></span></span><ul style="display: block; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="disc"><li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include <em style="font-style: italic;"><i>Speak as a Leader</i></em>, <em style="font-style: italic;"><i>CEO of Self</i></em>, <em style="font-style: italic;"><i>Leadership is Common Sense</i></em>, and <em style="font-style: italic;"><i>They Think You’re Stupid</i></em>.</span></span></li>
<li class="yiv1360587727ecxMsoNormal" style="display: list-item;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Radio Host. Around 2007—after a remarkable 40 year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).</span></span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318550733116172"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318550733116169" style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318550733116166" style="font-size: 12pt;">He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking—Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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</div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Disclaimer: I have not made a decision who I would vote for.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"></span></div><h2 class="border" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 100%; color: #0066cc; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal bold 105%/115% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><span style="color: #669900;">|| </span>Federalist No. 83<span style="color: #669900;"> ||</span></h2><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury<br />
From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Author: Alexander Hamilton</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE objection to the plan of the convention, which has met with most success in this State, and perhaps in several of the other States, is THAT RELATIVE TO THE WANT OF A CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION for the trial by jury in civil cases. The disingenuous form in which this objection is usually stated has been repeatedly adverted to and exposed, but continues to be pursued in all the conversations and writings of the opponents of the plan. The mere silence of the Constitution in regard to CIVIL CAUSES, is represented as an abolition of the trial by jury, and the declamations to which it has afforded a pretext are artfully calculated to induce a persuasion that this pretended abolition is complete and universal, extending not only to every species of civil, but even to CRIMINAL CAUSES. To argue with respect to the latter would, however, be as vain and fruitless as to attempt the serious proof of the EXISTENCE of MATTER, or to demonstrate any of those propositions which, by their own internal evidence, force conviction, when expressed in language adapted to convey their meaning.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With regard to civil causes, subtleties almost too contemptible for refutation have been employed to countenance the surmise that a thing which is only NOT PROVIDED FOR, is entirely ABOLISHED. Every man of discernment must at once perceive the wide difference between SILENCE and ABOLITION. But as the inventors of this fallacy have attempted to support it by certain LEGAL MAXIMS of interpretation, which they have perverted from their true meaning, it may not be wholly useless to explore the ground they have taken.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The maxims on which they rely are of this nature: "A specification of particulars is an exclusion of generals"; or, "The expression of one thing is the exclusion of another." Hence, say they, as the Constitution has established the trial by jury in criminal cases, and is silent in respect to civil, this silence is an implied prohibition of trial by jury in regard to the latter.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The rules of legal interpretation are rules of COMMONSENSE, adopted by the courts in the construction of the laws. The true test, therefore, of a just application of them is its conformity to the source from which they are derived. This being the case, let me ask if it is consistent with common-sense to suppose that a provision obliging the legislative power to commit the trial of criminal causes to juries, is a privation of its right to authorize or permit that mode of trial in other cases? Is it natural to suppose, that a command to do one thing is a prohibition to the doing of another, which there was a previous power to do, and which is not incompatible with the thing commanded to be done? If such a supposition would be unnatural and unreasonable, it cannot be rational to maintain that an injunction of the trial by jury in certain cases is an interdiction of it in others.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A power to constitute courts is a power to prescribe the mode of trial; and consequently, if nothing was said in the Constitution on the subject of juries, the legislature would be at liberty either to adopt that institution or to let it alone. This discretion, in regard to criminal causes, is abridged by the express injunction of trial by jury in all such cases; but it is, of course, left at large in relation to civil causes, there being a total silence on this head. The specification of an obligation to try all criminal causes in a particular mode, excludes indeed the obligation or necessity of employing the same mode in civil causes, but does not abridge THE POWER of the legislature to exercise that mode if it should be thought proper. The pretense, therefore, that the national legislature would not be at full liberty to submit all the civil causes of federal cognizance to the determination of juries, is a pretense destitute of all just foundation.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From these observations this conclusion results: that the trial by jury in civil cases would not be abolished; and that the use attempted to be made of the maxims which have been quoted, is contrary to reason and common-sense, and therefore not admissible. Even if these maxims had a precise technical sense, corresponding with the idea of those who employ them upon the present occasion, which, however, is not the case, they would still be inapplicable to a constitution of government. In relation to such a subject, the natural and obvious sense of its provisions, apart from any technical rules, is the true criterion of construction.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having now seen that the maxims relied upon will not bear the use made of them, let us endeavor to ascertain their proper use and true meaning. This will be best done by examples. The plan of the convention declares that the power of Congress, or, in other words, of the NATIONAL LEGISLATURE, shall extend to certain enumerated cases. This specification of particulars evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd, as well as useless, if a general authority was intended.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In like manner the judicial authority of the federal judicatures is declared by the Constitution to comprehend certain cases particularly specified. The expression of those cases marks the precise limits, beyond which the federal courts cannot extend their jurisdiction, because the objects of their cognizance being enumerated, the specification would be nugatory if it did not exclude all ideas of more extensive authority.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These examples are sufficient to elucidate the maxims which have been mentioned, and to designate the manner in which they should be used. But that there may be no misapprehensions upon this subject, I shall add one case more, to demonstrate the proper use of these maxims, and the abuse which has been made of them.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let us suppose that by the laws of this State a married woman was incapable of conveying her estate, and that the legislature, considering this as an evil, should enact that she might dispose of her property by deed executed in the presence of a magistrate. In such a case there can be no doubt but the specification would amount to an exclusion of any other mode of conveyance, because the woman having no previous power to alienate her property, the specification determines the particular mode which she is, for that purpose, to avail herself of. But let us further suppose that in a subsequent part of the same act it should be declared that no woman should dispose of any estate of a determinate value without the consent of three of her nearest relations, signified by their signing the deed; could it be inferred from this regulation that a married woman might not procure the approbation of her relations to a deed for conveying property of inferior value? The position is too absurd to merit a refutation, and yet this is precisely the position which those must establish who contend that the trial by juries in civil cases is abolished, because it is expressly provided for in cases of a criminal nature.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From these observations it must appear unquestionably true, that trial by jury is in no case abolished by the proposed Constitution, and it is equally true, that in those controversies between individuals in which the great body of the people are likely to be interested, that institution will remain precisely in the same situation in which it is placed by the State constitutions, and will be in no degree altered or influenced by the adoption of the plan under consideration. The foundation of this assertion is, that the national judiciary will have no cognizance of them, and of course they will remain determinable as heretofore by the State courts only, and in the manner which the State constitutions and laws prescribe. All land causes, except where claims under the grants of different States come into question, and all other controversies between the citizens of the same State, unless where they depend upon positive violations of the articles of union, by acts of the State legislatures, will belong exclusively to the jurisdiction of the State tribunals. Add to this, that admiralty causes, and almost all those which are of equity jurisdiction, are determinable under our own government without the intervention of a jury, and the inference from the whole will be, that this institution, as it exists with us at present, cannot possibly be affected to any great extent by the proposed alteration in our system of government.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The friends and adversaries of the plan of the convention, if they agree in nothing else, concur at least in the value they set upon the trial by jury; or if there is any difference between them it consists in this: the former regard it as a valuable safeguard to liberty; the latter represent it as the very palladium of free government. For my own part, the more the operation of the institution has fallen under my observation, the more reason I have discovered for holding it in high estimation; and it would be altogether superfluous to examine to what extent it deserves to be esteemed useful or essential in a representative republic, or how much more merit it may be entitled to, as a defense against the oppressions of an hereditary monarch, than as a barrier to the tyranny of popular magistrates in a popular government. Discussions of this kind would be more curious than beneficial, as all are satisfied of the utility of the institution, and of its friendly aspect to liberty. But I must acknowledge that I cannot readily discern the inseparable connection between the existence of liberty, and the trial by jury in civil cases. Arbitrary impeachments, arbitrary methods of prosecuting pretended offenses, and arbitrary punishments upon arbitrary convictions, have ever appeared to me to be the great engines of judicial despotism; and these have all relation to criminal proceedings. The trial by jury in criminal cases, aided by the habeas-corpus act, seems therefore to be alone concerned in the question. And both of these are provided for, in the most ample manner, in the plan of the convention.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It has been observed, that trial by jury is a safeguard against an oppressive exercise of the power of taxation. This observation deserves to be canvassed.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is evident that it can have no influence upon the legislature, in regard to the AMOUNT of taxes to be laid, to the OBJECTS upon which they are to be imposed, or to the RULE by which they are to be apportioned. If it can have any influence, therefore, it must be upon the mode of collection, and the conduct of the officers intrusted with the execution of the revenue laws.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As to the mode of collection in this State, under our own Constitution, the trial by jury is in most cases out of use. The taxes are usually levied by the more summary proceeding of distress and sale, as in cases of rent. And it is acknowledged on all hands, that this is essential to the efficacy of the revenue laws. The dilatory course of a trial at law to recover the taxes imposed on individuals, would neither suit the exigencies of the public nor promote the convenience of the citizens. It would often occasion an accumulation of costs, more burdensome than the original sum of the tax to be levied.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And as to the conduct of the officers of the revenue, the provision in favor of trial by jury in criminal cases, will afford the security aimed at. Wilful abuses of a public authority, to the oppression of the subject, and every species of official extortion, are offenses against the government, for which the persons who commit them may be indicted and punished according to the circumstances of the case.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The excellence of the trial by jury in civil cases appears to depend on circumstances foreign to the preservation of liberty. The strongest argument in its favor is, that it is a security against corruption. As there is always more time and better opportunity to tamper with a standing body of magistrates than with a jury summoned for the occasion, there is room to suppose that a corrupt influence would more easily find its way to the former than to the latter. The force of this consideration is, however, diminished by others. The sheriff, who is the summoner of ordinary juries, and the clerks of courts, who have the nomination of special juries, are themselves standing officers, and, acting individually, may be supposed more accessible to the touch of corruption than the judges, who are a collective body. It is not difficult to see, that it would be in the power of those officers to select jurors who would serve the purpose of the party as well as a corrupted bench. In the next place, it may fairly be supposed, that there would be less difficulty in gaining some of the jurors promiscuously taken from the public mass, than in gaining men who had been chosen by the government for their probity and good character. But making every deduction for these considerations, the trial by jury must still be a valuable check upon corruption. It greatly multiplies the impediments to its success. As matters now stand, it would be necessary to corrupt both court and jury; for where the jury have gone evidently wrong, the court will generally grant a new trial, and it would be in most cases of little use to practice upon the jury, unless the court could be likewise gained. Here then is a double security; and it will readily be perceived that this complicated agency tends to preserve the purity of both institutions. By increasing the obstacles to success, it discourages attempts to seduce the integrity of either. The temptations to prostitution which the judges might have to surmount, must certainly be much fewer, while the co-operation of a jury is necessary, than they might be, if they had themselves the exclusive determination of all causes.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Notwithstanding, therefore, the doubts I have expressed, as to the essentiality of trial by jury in civil cases to liberty, I admit that it is in most cases, under proper regulations, an excellent method of determining questions of property; and that on this account alone it would be entitled to a constitutional provision in its favor if it were possible to fix the limits within which it ought to be comprehended. There is, however, in all cases, great difficulty in this; and men not blinded by enthusiasm must be sensible that in a federal government, which is a composition of societies whose ideas and institutions in relation to the matter materially vary from each other, that difficulty must be not a little augmented. For my own part, at every new view I take of the subject, I become more convinced of the reality of the obstacles which, we are authoritatively informed, prevented the insertion of a provision on this head in the plan of the convention.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The great difference between the limits of the jury trial in different States is not generally understood; and as it must have considerable influence on the sentence we ought to pass upon the omission complained of in regard to this point, an explanation of it is necessary. In this State, our judicial establishments resemble, more nearly than in any other, those of Great Britain. We have courts of common law, courts of probates (analogous in certain matters to the spiritual courts in England), a court of admiralty and a court of chancery. In the courts of common law only, the trial by jury prevails, and this with some exceptions. In all the others a single judge presides, and proceeds in general either according to the course of the canon or civil law, without the aid of a jury. <a href="" name="T1"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_83.html#1" style="text-decoration: underline;">1</a>] In New Jersey, there is a court of chancery which proceeds like ours, but neither courts of admiralty nor of probates, in the sense in which these last are established with us. In that State the courts of common law have the cognizance of those causes which with us are determinable in the courts of admiralty and of probates, and of course the jury trial is more extensive in New Jersey than in New York. In Pennsylvania, this is perhaps still more the case, for there is no court of chancery in that State, and its common-law courts have equity jurisdiction. It has a court of admiralty, but none of probates, at least on the plan of ours. Delaware has in these respects imitated Pennsylvania. Maryland approaches more nearly to New York, as does also Virginia, except that the latter has a plurality of chancellors. North Carolina bears most affinity to Pennsylvania; South Carolina to Virginia. I believe, however, that in some of those States which have distinct courts of admiralty, the causes depending in them are triable by juries. In Georgia there are none but common-law courts, and an appeal of course lies from the verdict of one jury to another, which is called a special jury, and for which a particular mode of appointment is marked out. In Connecticut, they have no distinct courts either of chancery or of admiralty, and their courts of probates have no jurisdiction of causes. Their common-law courts have admiralty and, to a certain extent, equity jurisdiction. In cases of importance, their General Assembly is the only court of chancery. In Connecticut, therefore, the trial by jury extends in PRACTICE further than in any other State yet mentioned. Rhode Island is, I believe, in this particular, pretty much in the situation of Connecticut. Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in regard to the blending of law, equity, and admiralty jurisdictions, are in a similar predicament. In the four Eastern States, the trial by jury not only stands upon a broader foundation than in the other States, but it is attended with a peculiarity unknown, in its full extent, to any of them. There is an appeal OF COURSE from one jury to another, till there have been two verdicts out of three on one side.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From this sketch it appears that there is a material diversity, as well in the modification as in the extent of the institution of trial by jury in civil cases, in the several States; and from this fact these obvious reflections flow: first, that no general rule could have been fixed upon by the convention which would have corresponded with the circumstances of all the States; and secondly, that more or at least as much might have been hazarded by taking the system of any one State for a standard, as by omitting a provision altogether and leaving the matter, as has been done, to legislative regulation.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The propositions which have been made for supplying the omission have rather served to illustrate than to obviate the difficulty of the thing. The minority of Pennsylvania have proposed this mode of expression for the purpose "Trial by jury shall be as heretofore" and this I maintain would be senseless and nugatory. The United States, in their united or collective capacity, are the OBJECT to which all general provisions in the Constitution must necessarily be construed to refer. Now it is evident that though trial by jury, with various limitations, is known in each State individually, yet in the United States, AS SUCH, it is at this time altogether unknown, because the present federal government has no judiciary power whatever; and consequently there is no proper antecedent or previous establishment to which the term HERETOFORE could relate. It would therefore be destitute of a precise meaning, and inoperative from its uncertainty.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As, on the one hand, the form of the provision would not fulfil the intent of its proposers, so, on the other, if I apprehend that intent rightly, it would be in itself inexpedient. I presume it to be, that causes in the federal courts should be tried by jury, if, in the State where the courts sat, that mode of trial would obtain in a similar case in the State courts; that is to say, admiralty causes should be tried in Connecticut by a jury, in New York without one. The capricious operation of so dissimilar a method of trial in the same cases, under the same government, is of itself sufficient to indispose every well regulated judgment towards it. Whether the cause should be tried with or without a jury, would depend, in a great number of cases, on the accidental situation of the court and parties.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But this is not, in my estimation, the greatest objection. I feel a deep and deliberate conviction that there are many cases in which the trial by jury is an ineligible one. I think it so particularly in cases which concern the public peace with foreign nations that is, in most cases where the question turns wholly on the laws of nations. Of this nature, among others, are all prize causes. Juries cannot be supposed competent to investigations that require a thorough knowledge of the laws and usages of nations; and they will sometimes be under the influence of impressions which will not suffer them to pay sufficient regard to those considerations of public policy which ought to guide their inquiries. There would of course be always danger that the rights of other nations might be infringed by their decisions, so as to afford occasions of reprisal and war. Though the proper province of juries be to determine matters of fact, yet in most cases legal consequences are complicated with fact in such a manner as to render a separation impracticable.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It will add great weight to this remark, in relation to prize causes, to mention that the method of determining them has been thought worthy of particular regulation in various treaties between different powers of Europe, and that, pursuant to such treaties, they are determinable in Great Britain, in the last resort, before the king himself, in his privy council, where the fact, as well as the law, undergoes a re-examination. This alone demonstrates the impolicy of inserting a fundamental provision in the Constitution which would make the State systems a standard for the national government in the article under consideration, and the danger of encumbering the government with any constitutional provisions the propriety of which is not indisputable.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My convictions are equally strong that great advantages result from the separation of the equity from the law jurisdiction, and that the causes which belong to the former would be improperly committed to juries. The great and primary use of a court of equity is to give relief IN EXTRAORDINARY CASES, which are EXCEPTIONS <a href="" name="T2"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_83.html#2" style="text-decoration: underline;">2</a>] to general rules. To unite the jurisdiction of such cases with the ordinary jurisdiction, must have a tendency to unsettle the general rules, and to subject every case that arises to a SPECIAL determination; while a separation of the one from the other has the contrary effect of rendering one a sentinel over the other, and of keeping each within the expedient limits. Besides this, the circumstances that constitute cases proper for courts of equity are in many instances so nice and intricate, that they are incompatible with the genius of trials by jury. They require often such long, deliberate, and critical investigation as would be impracticable to men called from their occupations, and obliged to decide before they were permitted to return to them. The simplicity and expedition which form the distinguishing characters of this mode of trial require that the matter to be decided should be reduced to some single and obvious point; while the litigations usual in chancery frequently comprehend a long train of minute and independent particulars.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is true that the separation of the equity from the legal jurisdiction is peculiar to the English system of jurisprudence: which is the model that has been followed in several of the States. But it is equally true that the trial by jury has been unknown in every case in which they have been united. And the separation is essential to the preservation of that institution in its pristine purity. The nature of a court of equity will readily permit the extension of its jurisdiction to matters of law; but it is not a little to be suspected, that the attempt to extend the jurisdiction of the courts of law to matters of equity will not only be unproductive of the advantages which may be derived from courts of chancery, on the plan upon which they are established in this State, but will tend gradually to change the nature of the courts of law, and to undermine the trial by jury, by introducing questions too complicated for a decision in that mode.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These appeared to be conclusive reasons against incorporating the systems of all the States, in the formation of the national judiciary, according to what may be conjectured to have been the attempt of the Pennsylvania minority. Let us now examine how far the proposition of Massachusetts is calculated to remedy the supposed defect.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is in this form: "In civil actions between citizens of different States, every issue of fact, arising in ACTIONS AT COMMON LAW, may be tried by a jury if the parties, or either of them request it."</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This, at best, is a proposition confined to one description of causes; and the inference is fair, either that the Massachusetts convention considered that as the only class of federal causes, in which the trial by jury would be proper; or that if desirous of a more extensive provision, they found it impracticable to devise one which would properly answer the end. If the first, the omission of a regulation respecting so partial an object can never be considered as a material imperfection in the system. If the last, it affords a strong corroboration of the extreme difficulty of the thing.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But this is not all: if we advert to the observations already made respecting the courts that subsist in the several States of the Union, and the different powers exercised by them, it will appear that there are no expressions more vague and indeterminate than those which have been employed to characterize THAT species of causes which it is intended shall be entitled to a trial by jury. In this State, the boundaries between actions at common law and actions of equitable jurisdiction, are ascertained in conformity to the rules which prevail in England upon that subject. In many of the other States the boundaries are less precise. In some of them every cause is to be tried in a court of common law, and upon that foundation every action may be considered as an action at common law, to be determined by a jury, if the parties, or either of them, choose it. Hence the same irregularity and confusion would be introduced by a compliance with this proposition, that I have already noticed as resulting from the regulation proposed by the Pennsylvania minority. In one State a cause would receive its determination from a jury, if the parties, or either of them, requested it; but in another State, a cause exactly similar to the other, must be decided without the intervention of a jury, because the State judicatories varied as to common-law jurisdiction.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is obvious, therefore, that the Massachusetts proposition, upon this subject cannot operate as a general regulation, until some uniform plan, with respect to the limits of common-law and equitable jurisdictions, shall be adopted by the different States. To devise a plan of that kind is a task arduous in itself, and which it would require much time and reflection to mature. It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to suggest any general regulation that would be acceptable to all the States in the Union, or that would perfectly quadrate with the several State institutions.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It may be asked, Why could not a reference have been made to the constitution of this State, taking that, which is allowed by me to be a good one, as a standard for the United States? I answer that it is not very probable the other States would entertain the same opinion of our institutions as we do ourselves. It is natural to suppose that they are hitherto more attached to their own, and that each would struggle for the preference. If the plan of taking one State as a model for the whole had been thought of in the convention, it is to be presumed that the adoption of it in that body would have been rendered difficult by the predilection of each representation in favor of its own government; and it must be uncertain which of the States would have been taken as the model. It has been shown that many of them would be improper ones. And I leave it to conjecture, whether, under all circumstances, it is most likely that New York, or some other State, would have been preferred. But admit that a judicious selection could have been effected in the convention, still there would have been great danger of jealousy and disgust in the other States, at the partiality which had been shown to the institutions of one. The enemies of the plan would have been furnished with a fine pretext for raising a host of local prejudices against it, which perhaps might have hazarded, in no inconsiderable degree, its final establishment.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To avoid the embarrassments of a definition of the cases which the trial by jury ought to embrace, it is sometimes suggested by men of enthusiastic tempers, that a provision might have been inserted for establishing it in all cases whatsoever. For this I believe, no precedent is to be found in any member of the Union; and the considerations which have been stated in discussing the proposition of the minority of Pennsylvania, must satisfy every sober mind that the establishment of the trial by jury in ALL cases would have been an unpardonable error in the plan.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In short, the more it is considered the more arduous will appear the task of fashioning a provision in such a form as not to express too little to answer the purpose, or too much to be advisable; or which might not have opened other sources of opposition to the great and essential object of introducing a firm national government.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I cannot but persuade myself, on the other hand, that the different lights in which the subject has been placed in the course of these observations, will go far towards removing in candid minds the apprehensions they may have entertained on the point. They have tended to show that the security of liberty is materially concerned only in the trial by jury in criminal cases, which is provided for in the most ample manner in the plan of the convention; that even in far the greatest proportion of civil cases, and those in which the great body of the community is interested, that mode of trial will remain in its full force, as established in the State constitutions, untouched and unaffected by the plan of the convention; that it is in no case abolished <a href="" name="T3"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_83.html#3" style="text-decoration: underline;">3</a>] by that plan; and that there are great if not insurmountable difficulties in the way of making any precise and proper provision for it in a Constitution for the United States.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The best judges of the matter will be the least anxious for a constitutional establishment of the trial by jury in civil cases, and will be the most ready to admit that the changes which are continually happening in the affairs of society may render a different mode of determining questions of property preferable in many cases in which that mode of trial now prevails. For my part, I acknowledge myself to be convinced that even in this State it might be advantageously extended to some cases to which it does not at present apply, and might as advantageously be abridged in others. It is conceded by all reasonable men that it ought not to obtain in all cases. The examples of innovations which contract its ancient limits, as well in these States as in Great Britain, afford a strong presumption that its former extent has been found inconvenient, and give room to suppose that future experience may discover the propriety and utility of other exceptions. I suspect it to be impossible in the nature of the thing to fix the salutary point at which the operation of the institution ought to stop, and this is with me a strong argument for leaving the matter to the discretion of the legislature.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is now clearly understood to be the case in Great Britain, and it is equally so in the State of Connecticut; and yet it may be safely affirmed that more numerous encroachments have been made upon the trial by jury in this State since the Revolution, though provided for by a positive article of our constitution, than has happened in the same time either in Connecticut or Great Britain. It may be added that these encroachments have generally originated with the men who endeavor to persuade the people they are the warmest defenders of popular liberty, but who have rarely suffered constitutional obstacles to arrest them in a favorite career. The truth is that the general GENIUS of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be, with men of sound discernment, a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It certainly sounds not a little harsh and extraordinary to affirm that there is no security for liberty in a Constitution which expressly establishes the trial by jury in criminal cases, because it does not do it in civil also; while it is a notorious fact that Connecticut, which has been always regarded as the most popular State in the Union, can boast of no constitutional provision for either.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PUBLIUS.</span></em></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="" name="1"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_83.html#T1" style="text-decoration: underline;">1.</a> It has been erroneously insinuated. with regard to the court of chancery, that this court generally tries disputed facts by a jury. The truth is, that references to a jury in that court rarely happen, and are in no case necessary but where the validity of a devise of land comes into question.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="" name="2"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_83.html#T2" style="text-decoration: underline;">2.</a> It is true that the principles by which that relief is governed are now reduced to a regular system; but it is not the less true that they are in the main applicable to SPECIAL circumstances, which form exceptions to general rules.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="" name="3"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_83.html#T3" style="text-decoration: underline;">3.</a> Vide No. 81, in which the supposition of its being abolished by the appellate jurisdiction in matters of fact being vested in the Supreme Court, is examined and refuted.</span></div><div id="main_nav_bot" style="background-color: #eff6fd; border-bottom-color: rgb(202, 228, 254); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(202, 228, 254); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; font: normal normal normal 95%/normal verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; width: auto;"></div><br />
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<tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Caliphate</b><i> - the era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community; "their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate"</i><br />
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<div style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;">The term "Sharia" (a.k.a. Shari'a) literally means "<i>the path to a watering hole</i>." The Guardian newspaper in the UK describes Sharia as: "<i>... a religious code for living, in the same way that the Bible offers a moral system for Christians.</i>" <sub><b>1 </b></sub>It is used to refer both to the Islamic system of law and the totality of the Islamic way of life. Sharia is derived both from:</span></span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><b>F</b></span>or the past ten years I have keep an eye on the advocates and proponents of Islam and Sharia. After 9/11, Being devastated and demoralized, I needed to find the reasoning for murdering almost 3,000 innocent American people who went to work just like every other day. But, never returned home to their families.<br />
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One of the biggest issues with the United States of America is our self inflicted political correctness. It is suffocating our civil rights and liberties in the name of fairness, equality and civility. Organizations like CAIR, OIC, CIO, ACLU and others are suing and convoluting our laws and Constitution.<br />
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In a few municipalities in America, courts have decided in favor of Sharia law. That is correct. America is a republic. I have asked many times in emails to Senators and Congress, how can this happen? Needless to say, I have never received any type of response, especially living in the People's Republic of Maryland. We are a nation of laws, American laws. There isn't a place for laws of a foreign nation or religion. We are a sovereign nation governed by our Constitution. End of story.<br />
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With the onslaught of our anemic economy, protesters squatting on Wall Street, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria in turmoil, the Arab spring has sprung, an administration that is totally ineffective and the President promoting class warfare, Unions protesting with Socialists, and Communists. Islamists feel emboldened to promote the Caliphate world. An organization named Hrub u Tahrir run the conferences promoting Islam, Caliphate and Sharia called the Khalifa conferences. I find these conferences highly offensive being an American. Not because I am very religious or I label myself a practicing Catholic, but because the government and the liberals are at war with anything to do with Christianity. In California, teachers punish students for saying "God Bless" to someone who sneezes. Around the country, sports coaches can't bow their heads or say a prayer. If you are a Muslim, you can hold up traffic because you feel you have the right to pray in the streets. I think I will start wearing a Christian Crusader tunic and don my helmet and sword and walk around the streets of Washington, DC. Do you think I would be arrested? Me too. Do you think the ACLU would come to my rescue? Doubtful?<br />
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What the heck is Christlam? I feel like Andy Rooney asking that question. Christianity and Islam can never merge or practice religions side by side. Any christian clergy who thinks this can happen is extremely misguided. Refer to <b><i>Taqiyya</i></b> at the beginning of the post. Muslims will lie and deceive to further the Islamic cause. Read the Quran, you will understand that it is their mission to kill infidels if we don't covert to Islam.<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;">Following this closely, if events continue to favor Islam and denigrate Christianity, I believe that in the future, and could be the near future, World War III will not be between countries. I believe the next World War will be between Islam and Christianity. I am not advocating violence in any form, however, Christians are being pushed to the brink. As a Christian, I am okay with other religions. Live and let live. I loathe being forced or pushed into a situation where an entity suggests they are superior to our religion and what the foundation of our country was built upon. My friends and associates seem to feel the same way I do. The beauty of our republic is, you are free to possess and express your opinions as often as you like. Just don't bombard me with them. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><br />
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<b style="font-size: medium;">Most recent British Khalifa conference trailer, July 2011</b><br />
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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 12:16am</span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; 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padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="241" /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">This little note is an explanation of my views as a Black Conservative Independent. I get a lot of grief over my views on politics, welfare, and life in general. I’m especially writing this for my Liberal Democrat friends and family. With any luck, reading this will help them to understand me a little more. Please note: I am not a professional writer!</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I will probably never hear the end of the jokes and criticisms from my own community (the black community) about why I have the views and take the political stands that I do. The black community and their so-called “leaders” (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Sister Souljah, the NAACP, and the Black Caucus, to name a few) have all rallied in the cry of racism and oppression while in the Democrat Party, as they have since long before I was born and continue to do so today. I find it very humorous and hypocritical that even though these people and their loyal followers love to cry racism at the drop of a hat, they all are the first to start name calling and putting down other blacks if they are not on board with the Democrat Brainwashing Program.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I have only been called a “nigger” twice in my lifetime. Once was as a child on the playground at school. I don’t really count that one because the 7-year-old who called me that didn’t understand the meaning of the word at the time. The second time, I was in my mid-twenties and was in a bar brawl with a Caucasian female who thought she was tough and was trying to anger me more because she was losing. That did the trick, and it was quite a show considering I let my anger get the best of me and started acting like one!</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">People usually find this to be odd, but I’ve experienced more racism and hatred from my own black community than I ever have with any other community. I have been called an Uncle Tom, a Race Trader, a Sellout, a Fake, a Wanna-Be-White-Bitch, an Aunt Jemima, a House Nigger, and so much more. I have been told that I am confused, that I’m a racist toward my own kind, that I am brainwashed, that I’m stupid, that I talk white, and that I need to “embrace my blackness.” Considering that my skin is a beautiful mocha brown, I do believe my blackness has embraced me!</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">To tell you the truth, I have a hard time understanding why I would be called any of these things, but following are some of the reasons (excuses) that I have come up with:</span></span></div><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I speak proper English and don’t speak Ebonics, so I’m not black enough.</span></span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I went to college and didn’t drop out of school, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not a famous sports player or rapper and didn’t give up on life when I didn’t become one, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a job and don’t live off of welfare, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t do any drugs, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t deal drugs, and I’m not in a gang, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t have 2 or more “babies daddies,” so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t keep having children so I can stay on welfare, so I am not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t expect someone else to pay my way, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I use common sense in everything I do, so I am not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I aspire to be something more than average and work hard to accomplish my goals, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t believe everything I am told and do research to establish my opinions, so I am not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a 4-bedroom, 3-bath house in a nice neighborhood, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m married to a Caucasian man and have a mixed-race child, so I am not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t blame every failure that I have in life on racism, and I learn from my mistakes, so I am not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t pick my friends based on their race; I pick them because we get along and I like them, so I’m not black enough.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">I didn’t and will never vote for Obama, so I’m not black enough.</li>
</span></span></ul><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the biggest one of them all…</strong></span></span></div><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I pulled my head out of my behind, left the Democrat Party, and became an Independent.</span></span></li>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></ul><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">Like most black Americans, I was born into the Democrat Party. I say “born into” because you are literally a Democrat from birth. When you register, you register Democrat, and when you vote, you always vote Democrat no matter what. You’re not expected to have an opinion or have a stance on any issues, just vote Democrat, and you’ll be fine. My grandmother, who is still a Democrat Party ground-pounder, took me to register as soon as I turned 18. I had the gall to ask, “What are these other parties about?” She glared and told me “don’t worry about them, they are not for you and the blacks.” So, I did what I was told.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">When I went off to college, I decided that I would finish out my freshman year and then enter the United States Navy. I have to admit, my eyes started opening once I got away from my family and my hometown of Tucson, Arizona. I started paying attention to politics and what was going on in the world, because all of this stuff was now affecting me as an individual. The party that I had been born into started sounding more and more foreign and oppressive to me.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">When I say foreign and oppressive, I mean I could no longer follow the Democrat Party blindly because I had too many questions about their way of doing things and their beliefs. I didn’t agree on their stance on stem-cell research, I didn’t agree with the stance on abortion, and I definitely didn’t agree with the stance on the military and the war. I am a gun-owner and fight to preserve the rights to own them. I also found myself disagreeing with the stance that we taxpayers should be funding more welfare programs.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I didn’t want to be a part of keeping people dependent on the government, and that is what the Democrat Party does. I definitely don’t believe that you have to be a Democrat because you are Black. The reason I say that the Democrat Party is oppressive is because it teaches individuals (<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">especially minorities</strong>) that they can’t do any better for themselves so relying on the government and its social programs is the only way of life. How is anyone supposed to achieve anything in life if they’re too busy expecting the government and their socialist programs to take care of them?</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">Just so I am clear, I do know that people are going to need help from time to time. That was the original idea of the social programs, but now, it’s not a time-to-time thing. People are just plain lazy and sometimes just don’t know any better because of the way they were raised. It’s called the dumbing-down of society. I can’t stand knowing that my hard-earned tax dollars are paying for people who don’t want to work, who are bouncing from rehab to rehab, who are receiving more benefits than I (as a working taxpayer) and have a drug habit. I even know people that have faked disabilities in order to not have to work. Why punish those who are working and paying taxes so that the ones who want to live off of others can live an easier lifestyle?</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I also believe we should have an express lane for death row. Democrats believe in killing innocent babies, yet will protest to save the life of a death-row inmate. I think that is kind of backwards, don’t you? I see no point in paying for someone (a criminal of the worst kind) to live (in some cases better than others who have committed no crimes) when they’ve been sentenced to death.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My commonsense views didn’t click with the Democrat theology anymore; I became the White Sheep!</strong></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">So, here I am today taking flack for the way I think, talk, act, vote, and for my lifestyle, but to tell you the truth, they can keep calling me names and criticizing me! I love who I am, and those who call me names and criticize me are only making me stronger and work harder! If you don’t like my views on Obama, then tell me one thing he’s done for you or the American people besides gracing us with his presence. If you don’t like my views on the Democrat Party (originally the party of the Ku Klux Klan), then give me some intelligent reasons why you think it’s better than every other party, other than getting free stuff (nothing in this world is free, someone somewhere down the line is paying), calling me names, or saying I’m confused.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">I love being an independent thinker. I love not being dependent on anyone or anything! I love not having to sit and wait on food stamps to come in once a month. I love being able to speak proper English, because people don’t think I’m ignorant and uneducated! I love that I stayed in school because it gave me the tools that I needed to get by in this life! I love being drug-free because it helps me to see things clearly and to function without hindrance. I love not being a drug dealer or gang banger, because the only place that leads a person is to prison or the grave. (A little secret for the thuggin’ gang bangers and drug dealers who think they’re so cool: Wearing your pants down to your knees is not sexy! It was started as a signal in the prison system by homosexuals in order to signal that they were available! Now, don’t you feel stupid!<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>Lol! If you’re going to wear it, promote it, and fly that flag, at the very least <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">know your history!)</em></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And thus, I become a proud White Sheep of the Black Community! I think I will start a club! LOL!</strong></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></strong></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Headline head cases: You can't make this stuff up!</span></strong></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/sep/5-mil-performance-bonus-food-stamp-sign">REPORT: WHouse awarded $5M 'bonus' to state for Food Stamp signup...</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pick me! I gave out the most taxpayer money! Pick me!</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-i-dont-think-ethics-was-my-favorite-subject">Obama Recalls: 'I Don't Think Ethics' Was My Favorite Subject...</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who would have thunk this? And still isn't his favorite subject. Just ask the American citizens.</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/uncovered-737-million-green-jobs-loan-given-to-company-affiliated-with-pelosis-bro-in-law/"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Report: $737 Million ‘Green Jobs’ Loan Given to Company Affiliated with Pelosi’s Bro-in-Law</span></a></span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">The only green in green jobs is the taxpayers' money. Pelosi: My Brother in law has to pass the loan so he can see what is in it. Mo' money! Crony capitalism at its best. </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fidel-castro-mocks-obama-calls-him-stupid-says-u-n-address-was-gibberish/"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Fidel Castro Mocks Obama: Calls Him ‘Stupid’ & Says U.N. Address Was ‘Gibberish’</span></a></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">Obama, you have reached the bottom when Fidel disses you.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<h2 class="border" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 100%; color: blue; font: normal normal bold 105%/115% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">|| Federalist No. 82 ||</span></span></h2><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strong>The Judiciary Continued</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Author: <strong>Alexander Hamilton</strong><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE erection of a new government, whatever care or wisdom may distinguish the work, cannot fail to originate questions of intricacy and nicety; and these may, in a particular manner, be expected to flow from the establishment of a constitution founded upon the total or partial incorporation of a number of distinct sovereignties. 'T is time only that can mature and perfect so compound a system, can liquidate the meaning of all the parts, and can adjust them to each other in a harmonious and consistent WHOLE.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Such questions, accordingly, have arisen upon the plan proposed by the convention, and particularly concerning the judiciary department. The principal of these respect the situation of the State courts in regard to those causes which are to be submitted to federal jurisdiction. Is this to be exclusive, or are those courts to possess a concurrent jurisdiction? If the latter, in what relation will they stand to the national tribunals? These are inquiries which we meet with in the mouths of men of sense, and which are certainly entitled to attention.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The principles established in a former paper <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=1878945357384045772" name="T1"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_82.html#1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">1</a>] teach us that the States will retain all PRE-EXISTING authorities which may not be exclusively delegated to the federal head; and that this exclusive delegation can only exist in one of three cases: where an exclusive authority is, in express terms, granted to the Union; or where a particular authority is granted to the Union, and the exercise of a like authority is prohibited to the States; or where an authority is granted to the Union, with which a similar authority in the States would be utterly incompatible. Though these principles may not apply with the same force to the judiciary as to the legislative power, yet I am inclined to think that they are, in the main, just with respect to the former, as well as the latter. And under this impression, I shall lay it down as a rule, that the State courts will RETAIN the jurisdiction they now have, unless it appears to be taken away in one of the enumerated modes.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The only thing in the proposed Constitution, which wears the appearance of confining the causes of federal cognizance to the federal courts, is contained in this passage: "The JUDICIAL POWER of the United States SHALL BE VESTED in one Supreme Court, and in SUCH inferior courts as the Congress shall from time to time ordain and establish." This might either be construed to signify, that the supreme and subordinate courts of the Union should alone have the power of deciding those causes to which their authority is to extend; or simply to denote, that the organs of the national judiciary should be one Supreme Court, and as many subordinate courts as Congress should think proper to appoint; or in other words, that the United States should exercise the judicial power with which they are to be invested, through one supreme tribunal, and a certain number of inferior ones, to be instituted by them. The first excludes, the last admits, the concurrent jurisdiction of the State tribunals; and as the first would amount to an alienation of State power by implication, the last appears to me the most natural and the most defensible construction.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But this doctrine of concurrent jurisdiction is only clearly applicable to those descriptions of causes of which the State courts have previous cognizance. It is not equally evident in relation to cases which may grow out of, and be PECULIAR to, the Constitution to be established; for not to allow the State courts a right of jurisdiction in such cases, can hardly be considered as the abridgment of a pre-existing authority. I mean not therefore to contend that the United States, in the course of legislation upon the objects intrusted to their direction, may not commit the decision of causes arising upon a particular regulation to the federal courts solely, if such a measure should be deemed expedient; but I hold that the State courts will be divested of no part of their primitive jurisdiction, further than may relate to an appeal; and I am even of opinion that in every case in which they were not expressly excluded by the future acts of the national legislature, they will of course take cognizance of the causes to which those acts may give birth. This I infer from the nature of judiciary power, and from the general genius of the system. The judiciary power of every government looks beyond its own local or municipal laws, and in civil cases lays hold of all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, though the causes of dispute are relative to the laws of the most distant part of the globe. Those of Japan, not less than of New York, may furnish the objects of legal discussion to our courts. When in addition to this we consider the State governments and the national governments, as they truly are, in the light of kindred systems, and as parts of ONE WHOLE, the inference seems to be conclusive, that the State courts would have a concurrent jurisdiction in all cases arising under the laws of the Union, where it was not expressly prohibited.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here another question occurs: What relation would subsist between the national and State courts in these instances of concurrent jurisdiction? I answer, that an appeal would certainly lie from the latter, to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Constitution in direct terms gives an appellate jurisdiction to the Supreme Court in all the enumerated cases of federal cognizance in which it is not to have an original one, without a single expression to confine its operation to the inferior federal courts. The objects of appeal, not the tribunals from which it is to be made, are alone contemplated. From this circumstance, and from the reason of the thing, it ought to be construed to extend to the State tribunals. Either this must be the case, or the local courts must be excluded from a concurrent jurisdiction in matters of national concern, else the judiciary authority of the Union may be eluded at the pleasure of every plaintiff or prosecutor. Neither of these consequences ought, without evident necessity, to be involved; the latter would be entirely inadmissible, as it would defeat some of the most important and avowed purposes of the proposed government, and would essentially embarrass its measures. Nor do I perceive any foundation for such a supposition. Agreeably to the remark already made, the national and State systems are to be regarded as ONE WHOLE. The courts of the latter will of course be natural auxiliaries to the execution of the laws of the Union, and an appeal from them will as naturally lie to that tribunal which is destined to unite and assimilate the principles of national justice and the rules of national decisions. The evident aim of the plan of the convention is, that all the causes of the specified classes shall, for weighty public reasons, receive their original or final determination in the courts of the Union. To confine, therefore, the general expressions giving appellate jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, to appeals from the subordinate federal courts, instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, would be to abridge the latitude of the terms, in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But could an appeal be made to lie from the State courts to the subordinate federal judicatories? This is another of the questions which have been raised, and of greater difficulty than the former. The following considerations countenance the affirmative. The plan of the convention, in the first place, authorizes the national legislature "to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court." <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=1878945357384045772" name="T2"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_82.html#2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">2</a>] It declares, in the next place, that "the JUDICIAL POWER of the United States SHALL BE VESTED in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress shall ordain and establish"; and it then proceeds to enumerate the cases to which this judicial power shall extend. It afterwards divides the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court into original and appellate, but gives no definition of that of the subordinate courts. The only outlines described for them, are that they shall be "inferior to the Supreme Court," and that they shall not exceed the specified limits of the federal judiciary. Whether their authority shall be original or appellate, or both, is not declared. All this seems to be left to the discretion of the legislature. And this being the case, I perceive at present no impediment to the establishment of an appeal from the State courts to the subordinate national tribunals; and many advantages attending the power of doing it may be imagined. It would diminish the motives to the multiplication of federal courts, and would admit of arrangements calculated to contract the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The State tribunals may then be left with a more entire charge of federal causes; and appeals, in most cases in which they may be deemed proper, instead of being carried to the Supreme Court, may be made to lie from the State courts to district courts of the Union.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>PUBLIUS.</em></span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=1878945357384045772" name="1"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_82.html#T1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">1.</a> No. 31.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=1878945357384045772" name="2"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_82.html#T2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;">2.</a> Sec. 8th art. 1st.</span></span></div><div style="color: blue; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I first viewed this video of Elizabeth Warren, I was appalled and somewhat frightened. I knew Obama circumvented Congress and the Constitution by hiring the many Czars and Regulatory entities promoting the Obama administration's socialistic and big government policies. I know many will say that Obama is attempting to fix what Bush caused. Stop now, we are three years into the Obama administration and he has not fixed anything. I saw a poll two days ago and finally more Americans blamed Obama for the bad economy than Bush.The economy is headed for a double-dip recession, if we aren't already, unemployment is not moving down, consumer confidence is demoralized, small business owners are not hiring because of the uncertainty in regulations, taxes and healthcare. That is the good news. The bad news is we have sixteen months of the Obama administration left. The Obama administration has run out of ideas and solutions to fix the economy. Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke was rather pessimistic on the economy in a speech yesterday and the stock market is not impressed. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The American people are fed up with the administration's approach to solving the country's economic issues. The <strike>President</strike> Teleprompter gives a strictly political speech at a bridge in North Carolina stating if we don't pass his lame bill jobs immediately, bridges will fall down. A newspaper in North Carolina did its own inspections and found nothing of the sort. Not another lie by the President? This is a perfect example why the American populace doesn't believe the President and he is experiencing the biggest credibility issue in his Presidency. I was laughing out loud in my car today when I heard Bill "Bubba" Clinton throwing Obama under the same bus Obama uses. Clinton said he would not raise taxes in this economic climate. Ouch! Barry, that will leave a mark. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Bill Clinton on Newsmax Stating "taxes will not work."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M1mW1SdFsy8" width="640"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>How long will it take for Billy to retract his statement and say Newsmax misquoted him?</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">The facts are, the republican congress are not going to let Obama screw up the country any longer. Yes, he still can do damage, however, the republicans will hold his feet to the fire. Not to mention, the republican candidates smell blood and will attack the administration's policies constantly from now until November 6, 2012. In the many conversations I've had with conservatives and liberals, one question always causes an argument. Will Obama withdraw and not run in 2012? I say, has he already given up? He is not a leader, he hasn't shown the American people any hope or direction. He only gives campaign speeches. He could be waiting for a democrat challenger. Maybe, I know I am only dreaming, however, he has been lackluster in his speeches (the only thing he is good at), he has been messing up constantly, with tax policy, bridge speeches, etc... and he has many scandals plaguing his administration, i.e. Fast and Furious gun walker, Solyndra and Lightsquared Broadband to mention the latest. The notorious George Soros has been identified as a large investor in Lightsquared. Coincidental? And Richard Nixon thought he had troubles?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">So much for domestic issues, where Obama is a champion of foreign policy. Palestinian President Abbas is in front of the U.N. Security Council protesting for Palestinian statehood recognition. This is a cold slap in Obama's face. I thought the President had everything covered? The facts is, Obama's foreign policy is worst than his domestic policies. Remember back when Obama screwed the Eastern Europeans with the Star wars strategic bases he cancelled and left our allies holding their... tempers. Giving the cold shoulder to Israel, Libya and the Kinetic Military Action, and we are still there. Iraq and Afghanistan are still going on and this President won the Nobel Peace Prize, or was that the Nobel Piece Prize? He started with two wars and now there are three! Yes, I could go on for hours, But I digressed. In summation, President Obama now, seems very small with his nose high in the air, smug, looking down on the common folk. If I were him, I would seriously consider withdrawing from the 2012 Presidential race. Not because I don't like him, but simply put, he doesn't appear to enjoy the job. Don't misunderstand me, he enjoys the perks as much as any narcissist would, however, he doesn't like the policy and confrontation segments in which he never has had to deal with. The beauty of his Presidency, is he has awoken a <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">sleeping giant</span></b></i>. The <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>sleeping giant</b></span></i> is the American people who are not willing to give up the greatest country on Earth, and their way of life. God save the Republic!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>List of Obama's Czars:</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #171717; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #171717; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div class="story-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="story-text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Afghanistan Czar - Richard Holbrooke</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">AIDS Czar - Jeffrey Crowley</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Auto Recovery czar - Ed Montgomery</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Border Czar - Alan Bersin</strong> </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Car Czar - Ron Bloom </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Central Region Czar - Dennis Ross </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Domestic Violence Czar - Lynn Rosenthal </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Drug Czar - Gil Kerlikowske </span></strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Economic Czar - Paul Volcker </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Energy and Environment Czar - Carol Browner </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Faith-Based Czar - Joshua DuBois </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Great Lakes Czar - Cameron Davis </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones (resigned on Sept. 6)</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Guantanamo Closure Czar - Daniel Fried</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Health Czar - Nancy-Ann DeParle</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Information Czar - Vivek Kundra</span></em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">International Climate Czar - Todd Stern </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mideast Peace Czar - George Mitchell</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pay Czar - Kenneth Feinberg </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; 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padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Stimulus Accountability Czar - Earl Devaney - statutory position </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; 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Scott Gration </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TARP Czar - Herb Allison</strong> </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">*Nomination was sent to Senate on April 20, no action yet taken</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Bolded</b> - Confirmed by Congress</span></div></div></div><a class="more-2010-stories" href="http://www.politico.com/2010" style="background-attachment: initial; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Marxism is an economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. While it would take veritably volumes to explain the full implications and ramifications of the Marxist social and economic ideology, Marxism is summed up in the Encarta Reference Library as </span><i style="font-size: small;">“a theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.”</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Marxism is the antithesis of capitalism which is defined by Encarta as </span><i style="font-size: small;">“an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.”</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Under capitalism, the proletariat, the working class or “the people,” own only their capacity to work; they have the ability only to sell their own labor. According to Marx a class is defined by the relations of its members to the means of production. He proclaimed that history is the chronology of class struggles, wars, and uprisings. Under capitalism, Marx continues, the workers, in order to support their families are paid a bare minimum wage or salary. The worker is alienated because he has no control over the labor or product which he produces. The capitalists sell the products produced by the workers at a proportional value as related to the labor involved. Surplus value is the difference between what the worker is paid and the price for which the product is sold.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> An increasing immiseration of the proletariat occurs as the result of economic recessions; these recessions result because the working class is unable to buy the full product of their labors and the ruling capitalists do not consume all of the surplus value. A proletariat or socialist revolution must occur, according to Marx, where the state (the means by which the ruling class forcibly maintains rule over the other classes) is a dictatorship of the proletariat. Communism evolves from socialism out of this progression: the </span><b style="font-size: small;">socialist</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> slogan is “From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.” The </span><b style="font-size: small;">communist</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> slogan varies thusly: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> What were the Marxist views of religion? Because the worker under the capitalist regimes was miserable and alienated, religious beliefs were sustained. Religion, according to Marx was the response to the pain of being alive, the response to earthly suffering. In </span><i style="font-size: small;">Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (1844), Marx wrote, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless circumstances.” Marx indicated in this writing that the working class, the proletariat was a true revolutionary class, universal in character and acquainted with universal suffering. This provided the need for religion. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">21% Strongly approve of President's job performance</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">39% Strongly disapprove</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Presidential Approval Index Rating: -18</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">46% Somewhat approve of President's job performance</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">52% Somewhat disapprove</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">19% of likely voters feel country is headed in right direction</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">75% of likely voters feel country is headed in wrong direction</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.</span><br />
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border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 390px;"></iframe></div></div><div class="art_img_lrg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 485px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="The majority of Florida voters say President Barack Obama doesn't deserve a second term. " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/09/23/alg_pres_barack-obama.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The majority of Florida voters say President Barack Obama doesn't deserve a second term. " /></span><br />
<div class="art_img_lrg_txt" style="background-color: #edeff1; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="art_img_lrg_credit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 475px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Olivier Douliery/Pool</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The majority of Florida voters say President Barack Obama doesn't deserve a second term.</span></span></div></div><div class="art_sidebar" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 240px;"><div class="code_module" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="module_hdr" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/diag_stripe_bg.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 1px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 240px;"><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TAKE OUR POLL</span></h3></div><div class="poll" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(228, 228, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 230); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(228, 228, 230); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(228, 228, 230); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 218px;"><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bam 2.0</span></h4><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you want to see Obama win another term in 2012?</span></div><form action="http://www.nydailynews.com/nydn/poll.do" name="20110629_bam_20" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="poll_results"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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<tr class="poll_even" style="background-color: #f0f4f7; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="radio_poll" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"><input id="option1" name="20110629_bam_20" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="radio" value="1" /></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: middle; width: 188px;"><label for="option1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes. He has my vote.</label></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #f0f4f7; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="radio_poll" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"><input id="option2" name="20110629_bam_20" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="radio" value="2" /></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: middle; width: 188px;"><label for="option2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No way. Time to vote him out.</label></td></tr>
<tr class="poll_even" style="background-color: #f0f4f7; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="radio_poll" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"><input id="option3" name="20110629_bam_20" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="radio" value="3" /></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: middle; width: 188px;"><label for="option3" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don't know.</label></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><input class="btn" id="results" name="vote" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/btn-search-bg.jpg); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 3px; text-transform: uppercase;" type="submit" value="vote" /></span></div></form></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">President Obama is drowning in Florida.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A full 57% of Sunshine State voters disapprove of the job the commander-in-chief is doing, a <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1297.xml?ReleaseID=1650" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Quinnipiac University poll</a>released Thursday found.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And a scant 39% give him the thumbs up.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Even worse, 53% of voters in the crucial swing state say Obama doesn't deserve a second term - with only 41% believe he should get four more years in the Oval Office.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's Obama's bleakest outlook in any state where Quinnipiac conducts surveys.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Obama took Florida in 2008 with 50.9% of the vote eight years after the contentious 2000 election, which ultimately decided the election between ex-President George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As Republican presidential hopefuls prepare to debate in Orlando Thursday, it's looking particularly bright for Rick Perry in the Sunshine State.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Texas governor has maintained a lead among the GOP White House hopefuls with 28% of the vote, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 22%.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In head-to-head hypothetical matchups, Romney beats the President 47% to 40%, while Obama and Perry are essentially in a dead heat, 42% to 44%.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Gov. Rick Perry has the lead and the momentum among Florida Republicans, while former Gov. Mitt Romney can point to a better general election showing," said Peter A Brown, assistant director at Quinnipiac.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Adding to Perry's strength is support among Sarah Palin backers, who shift more to the Texas governor if the former Alaska governor stays out of the race."</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But it looks like Romney can count on the early-voting state of New Hampshire, which hosts the first GOP primary next year.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Romney blows the other candidates out of the water in the Granite State, a new Suffolk University/7News poll found.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He garnered 41% support among the state's voters.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/09/22/2011-09-22_president_obamas_poll_numbers_bomb_in_florida_majority_in_swing_state_disapprove.html#ixzz1YiL1elv1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #003399; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/09/22/2011-09-22_president_obamas_poll_numbers_bomb_in_florida_majority_in_swing_state_disapprove.html#ixzz1YiL1elv1</a></span></span><br />
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From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Author: Alexander Hamilton</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LET US now return to the partition of the judiciary authority between different courts, and their relations to each other, "The judicial power of the United States is" (by the plan of the convention) "to be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish." <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="T1"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#1" style="text-decoration: underline;">1</a>]</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That there ought to be one court of supreme and final jurisdiction, is a proposition which is not likely to be contested. The reasons for it have been assigned in another place, and are too obvious to need repetition. The only question that seems to have been raised concerning it, is, whether it ought to be a distinct body or a branch of the legislature. The same contradiction is observable in regard to this matter which has been remarked in several other cases. The very men who object to the Senate as a court of impeachments, on the ground of an improper inter mixture of powers, advocate, by implication at least, the propriety of vesting the ultimate decision of all causes, in the whole or in a part of the legislative body.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The arguments, or rather suggestions, upon which this charge is founded, are to this effect: "The authority of the proposed Supreme Court of the United States, which is to be a separate and independent body, will be superior to that of the legislature. The power of construing the laws according to the SPIRIT of the Constitution, will enable that court to mould them into whatever shape it may think proper; especially as its decisions will not be in any manner subject to the revision or correction of the legislative body. This is as unprecedented as it is dangerous. In Britain, the judicial power, in the last resort, resides in the House of Lords, which is a branch of the legislature; and this part of the British government has been imitated in the State constitutions in general. The Parliament of Great Britain, and the legislatures of the several States, can at any time rectify, by law, the exceptionable decisions of their respective courts. But the errors and usurpation's of the Supreme Court of the United States will be uncontrollable and remediless." This, upon examination, will be found to be made up altogether of false reasoning upon misconceived fact.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which DIRECTLY empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State. I admit, however, that the Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of the convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution; and as far as it is true, is equally applicable to most, if not to all the State governments. There can be no objection, therefore, on this account, to the federal judicature which will not lie against the local judicature's in general, and which will not serve to condemn every constitution that attempts to set bounds to legislative discretion.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But perhaps the force of the objection may be thought to consist in the particular organization of the Supreme Court; in its being composed of a distinct body of magistrates, instead of being one of the branches of the legislature, as in the government of Great Britain and that of the State. To insist upon this point, the authors of the objection must renounce the meaning they have labored to annex to the celebrated maxim, requiring a separation of the departments of power. It shall, nevertheless, be conceded to them, agreeably to the interpretation given to that maxim in the course of these papers, that it is not violated by vesting the ultimate power of judging in a PART of the legislative body. But though this be not an absolute violation of that excellent rule, yet it verges so nearly upon it, as on this account alone to be less eligible than the mode preferred by the convention. From a body which had even a partial agency in passing bad laws, we could rarely expect a disposition to temper and moderate them in the application. The same spirit which had operated in making them, would be too apt in interpreting them; still less could it be expected that men who had infringed the Constitution in the character of legislators, would be disposed to repair the breach in the character of judges. Nor is this all. Every reason which recommends the tenure of good behavior for judicial offices, militates against placing the judiciary power, in the last resort, in a body composed of men chosen for a limited period. There is an absurdity in referring the determination of causes, in the first instance, to judges of permanent standing; in the last, to those of a temporary and mutable constitution. And there is a still greater absurdity in subjecting the decisions of men, selected for their knowledge of the laws, acquired by long and laborious study, to the revision and control of men who, for want of the same advantage, cannot but be deficient in that knowledge. The members of the legislature will rarely be chosen with a view to those qualifications which fit men for the stations of judges; and as, on this account, there will be great reason to apprehend all the ill consequences of defective information, so, on account of the natural propensity of such bodies to party divisions, there will be no less reason to fear that the pestilential breath of faction may poison the fountains of justice. The habit of being continually marshaled on opposite sides will be too apt to stifle the voice both of law and of equity.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These considerations teach us to applaud the wisdom of those States who have committed the judicial power, in the last resort, not to a part of the legislature, but to distinct and independent bodies of men. Contrary to the supposition of those who have represented the plan of the convention, in this respect, as novel and unprecedented, it is but a copy of the constitutions of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia; and the preference which has been given to those models is highly to be commended.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is not true, in the second place, that the Parliament of Great Britain, or the legislatures of the particular States, can rectify the exceptionable decisions of their respective courts, in any other sense than might be done by a future legislature of the United States. The theory, neither of the British, nor the State constitutions, authorizes the revisal of a judicial sentence by a legislative act. Nor is there any thing in the proposed Constitution, more than in either of them, by which it is forbidden. In the former, as well as in the latter, the impropriety of the thing, on the general principles of law and reason, is the sole obstacle. A legislature, without exceeding its province, cannot reverse a determination once made in a particular case; though it may prescribe a new rule for future cases. This is the principle, and it applies in all its consequences, exactly in the same manner and extent, to the State governments, as to the national government now under consideration. Not the least difference can be pointed out in any view of the subject.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It may in the last place be observed that the supposed danger of judiciary encroachments on the legislative authority, which has been upon many occasions reiterated, is in reality a phantom. Particular misconstructions and contraventions of the will of the legislature may now and then happen; but they can never be so extensive as to amount to an inconvenience, or in any sensible degree to affect the order of the political system. This may be inferred with certainty, from the general nature of the judicial power, from the objects to which it relates, from the manner in which it is exercised, from its comparative weakness, and from its total incapacity to support its usurpation's by force. And the inference is greatly fortified by the consideration of the important constitutional check which the power of instituting impeachments in one part of the legislative body, and of determining upon them in the other, would give to that body upon the members of the judicial department. This is alone a complete security. There never can be danger that the judges, by a series of deliberate usurpation's on the authority of the legislature, would hazard the united resentment of the body in trusted with it, while this body was possessed of the means of punishing their presumption, by degrading them from their stations. While this ought to remove all apprehensions on the subject, it affords, at the same time, a cogent argument for constituting the Senate a court for the trial of impeachments.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having now examined, and, I trust, removed the objections to the distinct and independent organization of the Supreme Court, I proceed to consider the propriety of the power of constituting inferior courts, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="T2"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#2" style="text-decoration: underline;">2</a>] and the relations which will subsist between these and the former.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The power of constituting inferior courts is evidently calculated to obviate the necessity of having recourse to the Supreme Court in every case of federal cognizance. It is intended to enable the national government to institute or AUTHORIZE, in each State or district of the United States, a tribunal competent to the determination of matters of national jurisdiction within its limits.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But why, it is asked, might not the same purpose have been accomplished by the instrumentality of the State courts? This admits of different answers. Though the fitness and competency of those courts should be allowed in the utmost latitude, yet the substance of the power in question may still be regarded as a necessary part of the plan, if it were only to empower the national legislature to commit to them the cognizance of causes arising out of the national Constitution. To confer the power of determining such causes upon the existing courts of the several States, would perhaps be as much "to constitute tribunals," as to create new courts with the like power. But ought not a more direct and explicit provision to have been made in favor of the State courts? There are, in my opinion, substantial reasons against such a provision: the most discerning cannot foresee how far the prevalency of a local spirit may be found to disqualify the local tribunals for the jurisdiction of national causes; whilst every man may discover, that courts constituted like those of some of the States would be improper channels of the judicial authority of the Union. State judges, holding their offices during pleasure, or from year to year, will be too little independent to be relied upon for an inflexible execution of the national laws. And if there was a necessity for confiding the original cognizance of causes arising under those laws to them there would be a correspondent necessity for leaving the door of appeal as wide as possible. In proportion to the grounds of confidence in, or distrust of, the subordinate tribunals, ought to be the facility or difficulty of appeals. And well satisfied as I am of the propriety of the appellate jurisdiction, in the several classes of causes to which it is extended by the plan of the convention. I should consider every thing calculated to give, in practice, an UNRESTRAINED COURSE to appeals, as a source of public and private inconvenience.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am not sure, but that it will be found highly expedient and useful, to divide the United States into four or five or half a dozen districts; and to institute a federal court in each district, in lieu of one in every State. The judges of these courts, with the aid of the State judges, may hold circuits for the trial of causes in the several parts of the respective districts. Justice through them may be administered with ease and dispatch; and appeals may be safely circumscribed within a narrow compass. This plan appears to me at present the most eligible of any that could be adopted; and in order to it, it is necessary that the power of constituting inferior courts should exist in the full extent in which it is to be found in the proposed Constitution.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These reasons seem sufficient to satisfy a candid mind, that the want of such a power would have been a great defect in the plan. Let us now examine in what manner the judicial authority is to be distributed between the supreme and the inferior courts of the Union. The Supreme Court is to be invested with original jurisdiction, only "in cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which A STATE shall be a party." Public ministers of every class are the immediate representatives of their sovereigns. All questions in which they are concerned are so directly connected with the public peace, that, as well for the preservation of this, as out of respect to the sovereignty's they represent, it is both expedient and proper that such questions should be submitted in the first instance to the highest judicatory of the nation. Though consuls have not in strictness a diplomatic character, yet as they are the public agents of the nations to which they belong, the same observation is in a great measure applicable to them. In cases in which a State might happen to be a party, it would ill suit its dignity to be turned over to an inferior tribunal. Though it may rather be a digression from the immediate subject of this paper, I shall take occasion to mention here a supposition which has excited some alarm upon very mistaken grounds. It has been suggested that an assignment of the public securities of one State to the citizens of another, would enable them to prosecute that State in the federal courts for the amount of those securities; a suggestion which the following considerations prove to be without foundation.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of an individual WITHOUT ITS CONSENT. This is the general sense, and the general practice of mankind; and the exemption, as one of the attributes of sovereignty, is now enjoyed by the government of every State in the Union. Unless, therefore, there is a surrender of this immunity in the plan of the convention, it will remain with the States, and the danger intimated must be merely ideal. The circumstances which are necessary to produce an alienation of State sovereignty were discussed in considering the article of taxation, and need not be repeated here. A recurrence to the principles there established will satisfy us, that there is no color to pretend that the State governments would, by the adoption of that plan, be divested of the privilege of paying their own debts in their own way, free from every constraint but that which flows from the obligations of good faith. The contracts between a nation and individuals are only binding on the conscience of the sovereign, and have no pretensions to a compulsive force. They confer no right of action, independent of the sovereign will. To what purpose would it be to authorize suits against States for the debts they owe? How could recoveries be enforced? It is evident, it could not be done without waging war against the contracting State; and to ascribe to the federal courts, by mere implication, and in destruction of a pre-existing right of the State governments, a power which would involve such a consequence, would be altogether forced and unwarrantable.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let us resume the train of our observations. We have seen that the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court would be confined to two classes of causes, and those of a nature rarely to occur. In all other cases of federal cognizance, the original jurisdiction would appertain to the inferior tribunals; and the Supreme Court would have nothing more than an appellate jurisdiction, "with such EXCEPTIONS and under such REGULATIONS as the Congress shall make."</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The propriety of this appellate jurisdiction has been scarcely called in question in regard to matters of law; but the clamors have been loud against it as applied to matters of fact. Some well-intentioned men in this State, deriving their notions from the language and forms which obtain in our courts, have been induced to consider it as an implied supersedure of the trial by jury, in favor of the civil-law mode of trial, which prevails in our courts of admiralty, probate, and chancery. A technical sense has been affixed to the term "appellate," which, in our law parlance, is commonly used in reference to appeals in the course of the civil law. But if I am not misinformed, the same meaning would not be given to it in any part of New England. There an appeal from one jury to another, is familiar both in language and practice, and is even a matter of course, until there have been two verdicts on one side. The word "appellate," therefore, will not be understood in the same sense in New England as in New York, which shows the impropriety of a technical interpretation derived from the jurisprudence of any particular State. The expression, taken in the abstract, denotes nothing more than the power of one tribunal to review the proceedings of another, either as to the law or fact, or both. The mode of doing it may depend on ancient custom or legislative provision (in a new government it must depend on the latter), and may be with or without the aid of a jury, as may be judged advisable. If, therefore, the re-examination of a fact once determined by a jury, should in any case be admitted under the proposed Constitution, it may be so regulated as to be done by a second jury, either by remanding the cause to the court below for a second trial of the fact, or by directing an issue immediately out of the Supreme Court.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But it does not follow that the re-examination of a fact once ascertained by a jury, will be permitted in the Supreme Court. Why may not it be said, with the strictest propriety, when a writ of error is brought from an inferior to a superior court of law in this State, that the latter has jurisdiction of the fact as well as the law? It is true it cannot institute a new inquiry concerning the fact, but it takes cognizance of it as it appears upon the record, and pronounces the law arising upon it. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="T3"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#3" style="text-decoration: underline;">3</a>] This is jurisdiction of both fact and law; nor is it even possible to separate them. Though the common-law courts of this State ascertain disputed facts by a jury, yet they unquestionably have jurisdiction of both fact and law; and accordingly when the former is agreed in the pleadings, they have no recourse to a jury, but proceed at once to judgment. I contend, therefore, on this ground, that the expressions, "appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact," do not necessarily imply a re-examination in the Supreme Court of facts decided by juries in the inferior courts.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The following train of ideas may well be imagined to have influenced the convention, in relation to this particular provision. The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (it may have been argued) will extend to causes determinable in different modes, some in the course of the COMMON LAW, others in the course of the CIVIL LAW. In the former, the revision of the law only will be, generally speaking, the proper province of the Supreme Court; in the latter, the re-examination of the fact is agreeable to usage, and in some cases, of which prize causes are an example, might be essential to the preservation of the public peace. It is therefore necessary that the appellate jurisdiction should, in certain cases, extend in the broadest sense to matters of fact. It will not answer to make an express exception of cases which shall have been originally tried by a jury, because in the courts of some of the States ALL CAUSES are tried in this mode <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="T4"></a>[<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#4" style="text-decoration: underline;">4</a>] ; and such an exception would preclude the revision of matters of fact, as well where it might be proper, as where it might be improper. To avoid all inconveniences, it will be safest to declare generally, that the Supreme Court shall possess appellate jurisdiction both as to law and FACT, and that this jurisdiction shall be subject to such EXCEPTIONS and regulations as the national legislature may prescribe. This will enable the government to modify it in such a manner as will best answer the ends of public justice and security.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This view of the matter, at any rate, puts it out of all doubt that the supposed ABOLITION of the trial by jury, by the operation of this provision, is fallacious and untrue. The legislature of the United States would certainly have full power to provide, that in appeals to the Supreme Court there should be no re-examination of facts where they had been tried in the original causes by juries. This would certainly be an authorized exception; but if, for the reason already intimated, it should be thought too extensive, it might be qualified with a limitation to such causes only as are determinable at common law in that mode of trial.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The amount of the observations hitherto made on the authority of the judicial department is this: that it has been carefully restricted to those causes which are manifestly proper for the cognizance of the national judicature; that in the partition of this authority a very small portion of original jurisdiction has been preserved to the Supreme Court, and the rest consigned to the subordinate tribunals; that the Supreme Court will possess an appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, in all the cases referred to them, both subject to any EXCEPTIONS and REGULATIONS which may be thought advisable; that this appellate jurisdiction does, in no case, ABOLISH the trial by jury; and that an ordinary degree of prudence and integrity in the national councils will insure us solid advantages from the establishment of the proposed judiciary, without exposing us to any of the inconveniences which have been predicted from that source.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>PUBLIUS.</em></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="1"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#T1" style="text-decoration: underline;">1.</a> Article 3, sec. I.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="2"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#T2" style="text-decoration: underline;">2.</a> This power has been absurdly represented as intended to abolish all the county courts in the several States, which are commonly called inferior courts. But the expressions of the Constitution are, to constitute "tribunals INFERIOR TO THE SUPREME COURT"; and the evident design of the provision is to enable the institution of local courts, subordinate to the Supreme, either in States or larger districts. It is ridiculous to imagine that county courts were in contemplation.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="3"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#T3" style="text-decoration: underline;">3.</a> This word is composed of JUS and DICTIO, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=910077492777891291" name="4"></a><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_81.html#T4" style="text-decoration: underline;">4.</a> I hold that the States will have concurrent jurisdiction with the subordinate federal judicatories, in many cases of federal cognizance, as will be explained in my next paper.</span></div><div id="main_nav_bot" style="background-color: #eff6fd; border-bottom-color: rgb(202, 228, 254); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(202, 228, 254); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; font: normal normal normal 95%/normal verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; height: auto; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; width: auto;"></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Every time Obama speaks, thousands lose their investment portfolio," said Zou-Zou in "It's a wonderful life." President Obama has a tendency to speak out of both sides of his mouth. Today's speech, in my opinion, was a ploy to rally his base and to wage class warfare (again). It contains the same talking points as a plethora of past Obama speeches. In an interview with Obama's teleprompter, the teleprompter rejected this speech containing the same old rhetoric and partisan politics. Joking aside, President Obama hasn't got any more ideas on changing the economic down spiral. The economy is so bad that a journalist from the Chicago Tribune is telling Obama to withdraw from the Presidential race and go away. The anointed one is not feeling the love from the homies back in Chitown. Obama knows this proposed bill will not pass. This is simply a political move to blame the republicans for the pitiful economic situation. Of course, he must blame someone. Somewhere deep down inside of all liberals, they know it is George Bush's fault. Otherwise, Obama might have to blame himself. Proposing 1.5 trillion in new taxes on the rich. The rich are defined as anyone who makes over $200K. This includes the small business owner, who is struggling more today than I have ever witnessed. We don't hang out with Warren Buffet and the uppity crowd of Martha's Vineyard. I deal with the small business owner who is making a rather meager income. Obama proclaimed his bill would cut the deficit with $1.5T through tax increases, $1.1T through winding the Military's roles in Afghanistan and Iraq (maybe), $580B in reductions in entitlement programs excluding Social Security and $430B from reductions in interest costs. This collectively, would fund his $447B (non) jobs bill that actually isn't a bill yet. I wish Obama would have run a business and been responsible for a payroll before becoming King Obama. He has been spending other people's money his whole adult life. He didn't even pay for his education. Has he thanked the taxpayers for putting him through college? Doubtful! I've written in past blogs, Obama has disdain for America, capitalism and colonialism like his Father and Grandfather. If you question that, read Obama's books, Dreams of my Teleprompter and The Audacity of Nope. (Thanks to Bill "the domestic terrorist" Ayers for writing the latter. Obama has an incredibly short memory, way back in August 2009, Obama commented on the issue with not raising taxes during a recession. Please, someone tell Obama that we are in a major recession, possibly a double dip recession. He probably skipped that class at Columbia. House speaker, John Boehner, R-OH, stated that this bill would kill any job creation falling on the backs of the job creators. Barriers remain, Barry needs a fight to jump start his campaign. He is losing his base, Jews, Independents, Hispanics and Midgets. Progressives are unhappy with Obama because he not fulfilled any campaign promises. Not to mention, he is involved in 3 wars. I hope the republicans will hold their ground. Is this President prosecuting the Cloward-Piven theory or is he a just an idiot, in over his head? You decide. We are a little over thirteen months away from the most important election in our great republic's history. Get involved now. Do it for your kids and grand kids. They will be paying for this the rest of their little lives.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Obama job's speech today:</b></span><br />
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</ul><div class="clearfix" id="postContent" style="display: block; padding-bottom: 10px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-secret-recordings-uncovered-in-fast-and-furious-case/ak-47s/" rel="attachment wp-att-140694" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-140694" height="200" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/AK-47s-266x200.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;" title="AK-47s" width="266" /></a>CBS News <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20108240-10391695.html?tag=stack" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">has posted</a> what it claims is a secret recording between a senior ATF Agent and an Arizona gun store owner at the heart of the botched operation “Fast and Furious” weapons sting. The tape could be proof that the ATF tried to suppress evidence found at the crime scene of murdered U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Recorded around March 2011, the tape is the work of Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona– which was the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in “Operation Fast and Furious.” On the tape, Howard is talking with the lead case ATF Case Agent Hope MacAllister, according to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20108240-10391695.html?tag=stack" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">CBS</a>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Listen to their conversation below:</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="320" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html?WID=2375&VID=23530507&freewheel=69016&sitesection=ndn" width="425"></iframe></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="clearfix" id="postContent" style="display: block; padding-bottom: 10px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Note the discussion included the admission of <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-third-fast-and-furious-gun-linked-to-border-agents-killing/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self">three weapons found</a>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This is significant because it means the ATF might have known months ago that there were three Fast and Furious-linked guns, not two, found near U.S. Border Agent<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/murdered-border-agents-family-denied-victim-status-by-u-s-attorney/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"> Brian Terry</a> after he was killed in a shootout with cartel criminals.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Originally, court records only showed two “AK-47-style” weapons linked to Fast and Furious were part of the investigation. And a ballistics report turned over to Congress months ago also only indicated two Fast and Furious associated weapons.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">If a new ballistics test shows the missing third gun was in fact the one used to gun down the U.S. Border Agent, it would be hard to argue that evidence was not intentionally suppressed to avoid scandal.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Apparently, the Justice Department’s Inspector General obtained the audio tape discussing the number of weapons several months ago, and for some yet-to-be-determined reason, handed them over to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona — a primary subject itself of the Fast and Furious investigation.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">CBS has asked the pertinent question: ”It’s unclear why the Inspector General, who is supposed to investigate independently, would turn over evidence to an entity that is itself under investigation.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In a national election year, a cabinet-level resignation due to scandal would be very politically damaging. For Operation “Fast and Furious,” it appears robust Congressional oversight measures will be required to get anywhere near the truth.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Quote of the day:</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>"This isn't class warfare. This is math." </i></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Barack Obama's speech today on deficit reduction proposal.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I hope it isn't the same math that Obama and the liberals used on the Healthcare bill. </span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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Now, keep in mind, even before the financial crash, in the eight years before the financial crash, we had almost no new jobs. Only 10% as many as we had when I was President…. <strong>Historically these things take five years to get over</strong>. And a year after the President took office, the final figures came in and it turned out that the crash was even worse than anybody thought….There’s no American alive except the people who are old enough to remember the great depression, and there are not many of them, who remember what it’s like to go through a financial crash, which normally takes four to five years to get over. <strong>So he’s got a very difficult hand to play. “</strong></span></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">After telling Americans that the President was dealt a harsh hand, and that these things usually take four to five years to turn around, he commended the President’s current economic plan, saying “I think he finally got a plan that people can gravitate to.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">When asked by David Gregory if President Obama can be reelected if unemployment does not come down significantly from 9.1 %, President Clinton responded;</span></div><blockquote style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">“Yes, If people believe that he had a credible plan, and the Republicans thwarted it, either because they were wrong or they just wanted to beat him. That‘s the problem they’re facing.”</span></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">When asked about the Republican field of presidential candidates in 2012, Clinton said it appears to be a two-man race between Perry and Romney, but wouldn’t count anything out.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">“It‘s likely to be an unpredictable year because it’s an unpredictable time.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">President Clinton’s full interview on<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #d50b0b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"> NBC’s Meet the Press:</a></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>Conservative Praetorian Exclusive:</b></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 21px;">Bill Clinton announces support for Bachmann Candidacy the day after the Iowa State Fair. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Click on download below.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;">1. Almost everything you own and use for personal purposes, pleasure or investment is a capital asset.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;"></span></span><br />
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For the Independent Journal.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">Author: John Jay</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers. It is well worthy of consideration therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest of the people of America that they should, to all general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government, or that they should divide themselves into separate confederacies, and give to the head of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who insist that this opinion is erroneous, and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereignty's. However extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless has its advocates; and certain characters who were much opposed to it formerly, are at present of the number. Whatever may be the arguments or inducements which have wrought this change in the sentiments and declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be wise in the people at large to adopt these new political tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sound policy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, wide spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignty's.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">Similar sentiments have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it. They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and well balanced government for a free people. It is not to be wondered at, that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">This intelligent people perceived and regretted these defects. Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being persuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">This convention composed of men who possessed the confidence of the people, and many of whom had become highly distinguished by their patriotism, virtue and wisdom, in times which tried the minds and hearts of men, undertook the arduous task. In the mild season of peace, with minds unoccupied by other subjects, they passed many months in cool, uninterrupted, and daily consultation; and finally, without having been awed by power, or influenced by any passions except love for their country, they presented and recommended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unanimous councils.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">Admit, for so is the fact, that this plan is only RECOMMENDED, not imposed, yet let it be remembered that it is neither recommended to BLIND approbation, nor to BLIND re probation; but to that sedate and candid consideration which the magnitude and importance of the subject demand, and which it certainly ought to receive. But this (as was remarked in the foregoing number of this paper) is more to be wished than expected, that it may be so considered and examined. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It is not yet forgotten that well-grounded apprehensions of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of 1774. That body recommended certain measures to their constituents, and the event proved their wisdom; yet it is fresh in our memories how soon the press began to teem with pamphlets and weekly papers against those very measures. Not only many of the officers of government, who obeyed the dictates of personal interest, but others, from a mistaken estimate of consequences, or the undue influence of former attachments, or whose ambition aimed at objects which did not correspond with the public good, were indefatigable in their efforts to persuade the people to reject the advice of that patriotic Congress. Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority of the people reasoned and decided judiciously; and happy they are in reflecting that they did so.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">They considered that the Congress was composed of many wise and experienced men. That, being convened from different parts of the country, they brought with them and communicated to each other a variety of useful information. That, in the course of the time they passed together in inquiring into and discussing the true interests of their country, they must have acquired very accurate knowledge on that head. That they were individually interested in the public liberty and prosperity, and therefore that it was not less their inclination than their duty to recommend only such measures as, after the most mature deliberation, they really thought prudent and advisable.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">These and similar considerations then induced the people to rely greatly on the judgment and integrity of the Congress; and they took their advice, notwithstanding the various arts and endeavors used to deter them from it. But if the people at large had reason to confide in the men of that Congress, few of whom had been fully tried or generally known, still greater reason have they now to respect the judgment and advice of the convention, for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for patriotism and abilities, and who have grown old in acquiring political information, were also members of this convention, and carried into it their accumulated knowledge and experience.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 25px;">It is worthy of remark that not only the first, but every succeeding Congress, as well as the late convention, have invariably joined with the people in thinking that the prosperity of America depended on its Union. To preserve and perpetuate it was the great object of the people in forming that convention, and it is also the great object of the plan which the convention has advised them to adopt. With what propriety, therefore, or for what good purposes, are attempts at this particular period made by some men to depreciate the importance of the Union? Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one? I am persuaded in my own mind that the people have always thought right on this subject, and that their universal and uniform attachment to the cause of the Union rests on great and weighty reasons, which I shall endeavor to develop and explain in some ensuing papers. They who promote the idea of substituting a number of distinct confederacies in the room of the plan of the convention, seem clearly to foresee that the rejection of it would put the continuance of the Union in the utmost jeopardy. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>MG! Reuters said this morning, first time claims for unemployment <i><b>unexpectedly</b></i> went up to 427,000! Who with half a brain is surprised that more people are losing their incomes? This doesn't include the U6 number that includes the people who are discouraged and given up looking for work. Unemployment is hovering around 9% and most recently came in at 9.1%. Manufacturing is down. Inflation is on the rise, gas prices are clearly having a major financial impact on families, the U.S. is close to losing its long time AAA rating, young people will not find summer jobs because older unemployed Americans and (illegals) are filling those spots. Since I am in sales, I spend almost 50% more per week for gas than I did a year ago. Luckily, I am reimbursed for my fuel, however, what about the people who are just getting by? Where are they finding the funds to handle this? What about their vacation plans? I bet there are a lot more "staycations." Obama is perpetually on the campaign trail touting the recovery is not moving as fast as he wants... What recovery? I am worried about the dreaded "double dip" recession, or with Obama and his unqualified sycophants, a depression. I saw a poll stating that nearly half of all Americans expect another "Great Depression" in the next twelve months. Is that the hope and change you were hoping for? Not! Life is not favorable for the anointed one. His polls are way down. His heroic, personally assassinating Osama Bin Laden gave him a bump, which has all but fizzled out. The Confidence factor is hit rock bottom and college kids has lost that loving feeling for Barry. Why? Because they can't find jobs and have to move in with Mom and Dad. He isn't so cool anymore. James Carville (democrat strategist and Fireman Bill lookalike) said there could be civil unrest in the major cities this summer if jobs are scarce. He basically blamed the GOP. The MSM is still covering for BHO, however, many left-leaning (biased) news organizations are bailing on Obama. Even a Chicago rapper called Obama, the biggest terrorist in the USA. I bet Obama and Michelle didn't invite this rapper to the Wednesday night parties at the White House. One of the few celebrities, anyway. As a conservative, patriotic American, I will participate as much as my schedule allows me to work in concert with fellow conservatives to make Obama unemployed in January, 2013. As I said in so many posts, we must not falter one iota, in regard to voting into office, representatives that have conservative values, and those who follow and honor our Constitution. Obama would like to abolish the Constitution. He said he doesn't like it and it is a stumbling block in past interviews. I believe our Constitution is the law of the land and has worked for over 200 years just fine. With all of the bad news, republican candidates do not seem to jump on these Obamisms. Sarah Palin is out there busting Obama on his failures. And we wonder why the left loathes her. Michelle Bachmann has been opening a full can of whoop-butt on Obama, however, neither has entered the Presidential race. Will they, probably. I have a suspicion that Obama is doing this on purpose. That's right, <i>on purpose</i>. Read Obama's books. He despises Colonialism. His Grandfather and his father both hated Colonialism. He is a socialist at heart and hates Capitalism. Can you remember a President who conducted a world apology tour? I will never apologize for anything America has done. We have been the world's police department, humanitarian aid supplier, world banker while other countries hate and criticize us. Obama grew up idolizing Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals), Bill Ayers (American terrorist), Bernadean Dorn (Ayers wife and fellow terrorist) and my favorite, Reverend <s>Wrong </s>Wright. He is a holy man, huh? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">American businesses, small and large are sitting on trillions of dollars. They will spend it when they have certainty in the economy and government. Obamacare, government regulations, taxes, bureaucrats and the like make the answer easy for the business owners. Wait and see... Obama had the gall to blame the American people for the slow recovery (his words). Don't forget to blame Bush, too. In fact, it is Obama's policies that have failed the American people. <s>Porkulus</s> Stimulus was a complete waste of tax dollars. QE (Quantitative Easing) hasn't done anything except destroy the dollar. Obamacare with it's 2700 pages of Big Brother tactics. And of course, the auto industry bailout was a good thing. We will only lose billions on that deal. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the white elephants in the room. They both need to be overhauled in a major way. By the way, Obama has started two wars now. Libya, the kinetic military action and now, covert air strikes in Yemen. I could have swore he said he was against starting wars? One of my first posts way back when was titled, "If I was President for one term." Drilling for oil in America, securing the border (for real), cut spending like a miser, reduce government and other points were topics I wrote about. I received many responses stating if I ran, they would vote for me. My point is, we all know what the issues are. We need a leader who can bring these ideas to fruition. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I believe in American Exceptionalism. Period. </span>I long for a candidate like Ronald Reagan. He is exactly what we need at this time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Report says, "Green buildings may be hazardous to your health."</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-size: 17px;"><strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Editor's Note:</span></em></strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the last of a three-part series about</span><a href="http://kamalsaleem.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=54" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kamal Saleem,</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a onetime terrorist who abandoned violence for Christianity.</span></em></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Islam is like a cancer. It grows and expands until it eventually consumes and suffocates the host."</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those are the words of warning from</span><a href="http://kamalsaleem.com/" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kamal Saleem,</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the former terrorist who left Islam and converted to Christianity.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem was raised by his parents to be an angry, West-hating terrorist and he eventually came to the U. S. to work for the destruction of the country.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem says his knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood's mission and methods compels him to warn Americans about what is happening under the radar in their own country.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Blood-of-Lambs-Hardcover" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the full story, in "The Blood of Lambs: A Former Terrorist's Memoir of Death and Redemption"</span></a></em></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Muslim Brotherhood is here specifically to destroy the house of the United States of America and bring about the Islamic House and that's done by the Muslim's hand," Saleem explained.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"And it’s not the just the Muslims who came to the United States for this purpose, but also those they recruited in the United States as Americans and have turned them against this country," Saleem continued</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"></div><table><tbody>
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<div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's told his story in </span><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Blood-of-Lambs-Hardcover" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the book, "The Blood of Lambs: A Former Terrorist's Memoir of Death and Redemption,"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as well as</span><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/in-the-red-chair-dvd-rom" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a DVD called "In the Red Chair,"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where he describes how he used to use his power – all of it – to change the world for Islam.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem says one of the Muslim Brotherhood's own documents, posted at</span><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Investigative Project on Terrorism website</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shows the</span><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/445.pdf" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brotherhood's intentions.</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There, the process is explained:</span></div><blockquote style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Settlement: "That Islam and its Movement become a part of the homeland it lives in".<br />
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Establishment: "That Islam turns into firmly rooted organizations on whose bases civilization, structure and testimony are built".<br />
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Stability: "That Islam is stable in the land on which its people move".<br />
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Enablement: "That Islam is enabled within the souls, minds and the lives of the people of the country in which it moves".<br />
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Rooting: "That Islam is resident and not a passing thing, or rooted 'entrenched' in the soil of the spot where it moves and not a strange plant to it'></span></blockquote><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also outlines plans for North America:</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The process includes building mosques and Islamic centers, building Islamic organizations, building Islamic schools, then the "overt Islamic Movement" and coordinating all Islamic "movements."</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The level they were talking about went all the way to the White House, to the Senate, to the House of Representatives, to lobbying, to the banking, to the security services," Saleem said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem adds by now Islam even has reached the sanctuaries of Christian churches and campuses of Christian colleges.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Even in Christian schools today, you find Islamic history professors whose papers are done on the glory of Allah and Islam and Muhammad, right there on Christian universities," Saleem said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"These guys are the first allies and the best allies to Islam. So, when someone speaks of Islam, they try to destroy the person's character instantly because they (the professor) have become a war machine," Saleem said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To understand the tactic in the colleges, Saleem refers back to the Muslim Brotherhood memorandum.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The only way we can succeed is to dwell on the strengths of the leaders of this country, like the professors and the politicians," Saleem explained.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"So, the Muslims run to these leaders and act like weak vessels, like, 'We've been attacked; we're nobody and no body's been defending us. We need a hero,'" Saleem detailed.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"So, 'our man' (the U. S. politician defending Islam) rises up to protect them (the Muslims). Now they become advocates for Islam. You see some churches today, they've become Chrislam, Christian and Muslim. They have the Bible and the Quran in every pew," Saleem said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"And you go, 'how is that possible?' Islam cannot be equal. It's a deception and it's moving forcefully," Saleem explained.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Center for the Study of Political Islam</span><a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Bill Warner agrees</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and says that higher education is the target of a well-financed influence campaign.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I spent eight years at a university as a professor. I'm here to tell you that not only can you rent a professor; you can buy a professor. Not only can you buy a professor, you can buy an entire department. This corruption has been noted in medical schools with drug companies," Warner said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warner uses the Saudis as an example.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What has happened is that the Saudis, our best friends, have given large sums of money to set up centers to study Islam at universities," Warner explained.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"So, if you come into a university, give them $20 million to set up some chair for a Middle East Department, then you fund things and you build a building, money will buy influence," Warner stated.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Here we have education departments, at like Georgetown or Harvard, the two biggest examples, which now function as mouthpieces for the Muslim Brotherhood. By that I mean the decrees they make or the papers they write, cannot be distinguished from an apologist for Islam," Warner asserted.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He cited Georgetown University, which recently established a unit of the</span><a href="http://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a</span><a href="http://nrcme.georgetown.edu/" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">National Resource Center on the Middle East.</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warner also listed Harvard, whose Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs sponsors</span><a href="http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/53/dubai_initiative.html" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Dubai Initiative and the Dubai School of Government</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neither university has responded to WND requests for comment.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warner also says jihad comes in three different forms.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"There are many ways to practice jihad. Everyone when they think of jihad thinks of jihad by the sword, as on 9/11. But there are other ways," Warner explained.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"></div><table align="left" border="0"><tbody>
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<div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Quran is very clear on this as are the Hadiths. You can practice jihad by the use of speech, writing and money. As a matter of fact, Muhammad in his dying words mentioned the use of money in jihad," Warner continued.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"His dying words were neither Jew nor Christian should remain in Arabia and keep giving the money to influence the kafir (the unbeliever), the non-Muslim ambassadors," Warner said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"So the use of money is a well traveled path," Warner added.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem adds that there are dynamics at work that bring Muslims to coordinate with people that in the Muslim world they would persecute. He says homosexuals are an example.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"They've even aligned themselves with the gays. The gay movement is protecting the Muslims. They don't know that in Islam, the gay people are beheaded. That's their cure for homosexuality," Saleem continued.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"But it's the doctrine. Befriend your enemy until you enslave them. Me and my enemy against my enemy," Saleem added.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem says one of the most insidious ways jihad and Shariah law is infiltrating the U. S. is through the courts. He cites the recent Florida case in which a judge ordered Shariah law</span><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/article1158818.ece" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">be used to settle a mosque leadership dispute.</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What they're trying to do is fake cases for Islam and these cases are done purposefully. We take an imam, there are two of them. They were fighting against each other and the fight was over a mosque," Saleem explained.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"></div><table align="right" border="0"><tbody>
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<div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"That is so devious and it is part of the culture of Islamic invasion. These two imams are fighting over a mosque in Florida. Each imam says it belongs to me," Saleem said,</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"One says I built it and I raised the funds. The other one says the Wahhabi government put me over here and they're the ones who sent the money. Both of them are right," Saleem continued.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"They went to the Supreme Court in Florida. What happened is that they said this was a Muslim matter and you need to judge us by Islamic Shariah law or you will not understand how these things work," Saleem added.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Both of them are demanding to be judged by Shariah so now the Supreme Court is learning how Shariah works. So, in turn, they have instilled and indwelt Islamic laws with our laws," Saleem said.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem says at that point a judicial precedent has been established and other Muslims can officially ask for their cases be decided by Shariah law.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a Pennsylvania case,</span><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/04/30/pennsylvania-court-interprets-will-%E2%80%9Caccording-to-islamic-laws-and-sharia%E2%80%9D-and-awards-twice-as-much-to-each-son-as-to-each-daughter/" style="color: #580b10;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a judge used Shariah law to settle a dispute over a will.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a result, the two brothers were awarded twice as much of the inheritance as the two sisters.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem says that the effort to install Shariah law into the United States should be treated like "any other act of terrorism because they are terrorizing this country."</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saleem says what's happening should be prayed against.</span></div><div style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"That's what we need to speak against and pray against because it is the essence of evil." Saleem declared.</span></div></div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 26px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/06/08/the-coming-crash-of-2013" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-size: 26px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Coming Crash of 2013</span></a></h2><div class="byline" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #777777; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By </span><a href="http://spectator.org/people/peter-ferrara" rel="author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter Ferrara</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on 6.8.11 @ 6:09AM</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Inauguration Day, 2009, President Obama seemed so politically blessed by the timing of developing economic trends. I expected that based on American economic history, recovery from the recession should have occurred some time during 2009. Even the longest previous recession since the Great Depression would have resulted in a recovery in summer 2009, as the recession began in December 2007.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moreover, prior American history had shown that the deeper the recession the stronger the recovery. So I was expecting President Obama to pass his economic recovery plan, as foolhardy and ineffective as I believed it would be, and then to ride a wave of adulation as the economy roared back later in the year, which it should have done just on its own according to long established rhythms of the business cycle.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So even I have been surprised by the reality that President Obama's economic policies have been so disastrous that they have prevented any real recovery from getting off the ground, at what is now </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">three and a half years</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> since the recession began.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In America, the economy does not fall into stagnation and just lie there for years, which is the narrative of the Obama Administration, thinking the American people are too stupid to know their own country. Our economy has periodically fallen into recessions, but recovers to show robust economic growth within a year or two. That is why chief White House economist Austan Goolsbee, who does know better, is playing with us when he says as he did last Friday in response to the May jobs report, "there are always bumps on the road to recovery, but the overall trajectory of the economy has improved dramatically over the past two years."</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression</span></span></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How much time do Obama and Goolsbee think they have to do their job right for the American people? In every </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">other</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> recession since the Great Depression, the overall trajectory of the economy has been dramatically better after two years. But </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> this time. Since the Great Depression, recessions have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously being 16 months. Yet, in May, </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">41 months</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> after the recession began, unemployment rose yet again, to 9.1%. America has now suffered the longest period with unemployment that high since the Great Depression.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The depression for African Americans continued, as unemployment among them rose again to 16.2%. Hispanics continued with unemployment at double digit depression levels as well, with unemployment among them also rising again to nearly 12%. For teenagers, the depression level unemployment persisted at 24.2%; for black teenagers, over 40%. The U6 unemployment rate, counting those marginally attached to the labor force who have given up looking in the Obama "recovery," and those stuck in part time unemployment for economic reasons, continued at nearly 16%.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the Reagan recovery, a real recovery from a similarly deep recession, averaged 7.1% real economic growth over the first 7 quarters, the Obama recovery has produced less than half that at 2.8%, with the last quarter at a dismal 1.8%. While the Reagan recovery produced nearly 20 million new jobs, and civilian employment rose by almost 20%, today America still suffers 6.8 million fewer jobs than when the recession started over 3 years ago. The labor force participation rate has fallen to its lowest level almost since the Reagan recovery started over 25 years ago. As the </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wall Street Journal</span></em><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576363620272917928.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">explained</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on Monday:</span></span></div><blockquote style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 9px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is an important economic measure because it reflects the opportunities that Americans perceive in the marketplace. In the long boom from the Reagan years through 2000 or so, the labor force participation rate took a historic leap upward as women, immigrants and others entered the job market…. It has now fallen off a cliff, and we doubt that is what Mr. Goolsbee means when he hails the "trajectory of the economy."</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have previously discussed why this happened. Obamanomics doggedly followed the opposite of Reaganomics in every detail. The centerpiece of Obamanomics was the old-fashioned Keynesianism that was a proven failure and left for dead 30 years ago. That was reflected most of all in Obama's February 2009 trillion dollar stimulus package. That didn't work because borrowing a trillion dollars out of the economy to spend a trillion dollars back into the economy does not add anything to the economy on net.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And borrowing two trillion for the stimulus instead still wouldn't have done it, for the same reason. Those calling for still more of the same Keynesian snake oil are just self-identifying themselves as hopelessly deluded fools who must not be taken seriously ever again. Worse than not working, Obama's trillion dollar stimulus already drove us to the brink of bankruptcy. Going for still more now as advocated by the mentally blinded would be walking off the cliff with our eyes closed.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great Depression 2.0</span></span></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hard as it may be to imagine, where we are headed under Obamanomics will be worse than where we have been. The economic indicators are increasingly flashing economic decline already. Once the Bush tax cuts were extended to 2013, I didn't expect to see that until then, for all of the reasons below. But Obamanomics keeps deteriorating faster than even I expected.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Already scheduled now under current law in 2013 is the expiration of those Bush tax cuts, which President Obama has refused to renew for single workers making over $200,000 a year, and couples making over $250,000. Also scheduled to go into effect in 2013 under current law are all the tax increases of Obamacare. Together, these job killing tax policies would result in a sharp increase in the tax rates on the nation's small businesses, job creators, and investors for virtually every major federal tax.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These taxpayers would see their income tax rates jump by nearly 20%, the capital gains tax rate increase by nearly 60%, the total tax rate on corporate dividends increase by nearly three times, their Medicare payroll tax rate increase by 62%, and the death tax rise from the grave with a 55% rate. This would go way beyond the outdated Obama talking point about returning to the Clinton tax rates, adding up to a top federal tax rate of 44.8% on wage income alone, besides all the tax increases on capital income, on the way up to a 62% top federal tax rate.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet President Obama continues to propose still more tax increases on these small businesses, job creators, and investors. Besides proposing a further $321 billion tax increase on them in his 2012 budget, by limiting or phasing out their tax deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, property taxes, sales taxes, state and local income taxes, and medical expenses, he proposed in his April 13 national budget address an additional trillion dollar increase on them through further deduction limitations. Then he called as well for an automatic tax increase trigger that would raise taxes still further on them if "our debt is not projected to fall as a share of the economy." Senate Democrats have discussed adding a 3% surtax on incomes over $1 million.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, American businesses continue to suffer from virtually the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, leaving American companies uncompetitive in the global economy. Yet under President Obama there is no relief in sight. Instead he continually proposes still further tax increases on American business.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama and the Democrats doggedly pursue these tax policies because they believe ideologically in socialist wealth redistribution. But openly raiding small businesses, job creators, investors, and American companies is crippling for the economy, particularly this weak economy. This ends up hurting working people and their families the most, as they lose the jobs, wages, and opportunity they need for a decent life.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Besides this tax tsunami, President Obama is implementing another trillion dollar plus cost burden on the economy through the EPA's cap and trade tax policy. That is one central feature of President Obama's war on production of traditional, low cost, energy, shutting down drilling, extraction and pipelines from the northern tip of Alaska, down through Canada, to the energy rich Western states, through Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico. Obama keeps issuing statements that he is opening drilling or permitting or exploration here and there, only to have it shut down by his bureaucracy soon thereafter. All of this will only raise energy prices higher and higher through to 2013, squelching the economy still further.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama doggedly pursues this because he and his advisers believe ideologically that higher energy prices and less energy production and use are good for the environment. But this extremist view of what is good for the environment is a catastrophe for the economy, jobs, and working people.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just the beginning, however, of President Obama's re regulation burden on the economy, which is estimated to be rapidly rising towards $2 trillion, or over $8,000 per employee, in annual costs even before EPA's calamitous cap and trade really begins. That is close to 10 times the corporate tax burden, and double the individual income tax burden. With another 4,225 federal regulations already in the pipeline, and the new regulatory burdens from Obama and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill still to come, how high will that burden be by 2013?</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there is the Fed and the effects of its monetary policy. The Obama Administration has cheered on the Fed's loose-as-a-bordello monetary policy, with near zero interest rates for years now, and the printing presses cranking out reams of cheap money. But once the Fed ends this monetary crack, the artificial pump up for the economy ends as well, and the underlying weakness of the economy is revealed. That appears to be what is happening now, as QE2 ends.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the Fed stands pat, the downturn will feed on itself, fueled further by all of the above contractionary policies. If the Fed is spooked into resorting to QE3 and the return to easy money, that will cause the inflation started by QE2 to surge. Indeed, once the Fed goes down that road, it surely will not try to cut back again until the 2012 election is past, to avoid a nasty downturn in the middle of President Obama's planned reelection victory tour. Inflation would consequently surge all through next year, cutting the real wages of working people and their families further.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right after the election, the Fed will stop the merry go round to finally pull the plug on burgeoning inflation. But that extended monetary malpractice will only make the downturn withdrawal from the monetary crack high all the more nasty.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the comprehensive tax rate increases, to the soaring energy costs, to the costly regulatory burdens, to the monetary policy mindlessness, all of this adds up to one whopping double-dip downturn in 2013. The extended unemployment exploding into double digits will be effectively another depression. Once it starts feeding on itself, there is no telling just how far it will go.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But with the deficit already at $1.6 trillion or so this year, America cannot handle another recession, let alone effectively another depression that will cause the deficit to soar well beyond any possibly manageable levels. World financial markets cannot bear that load, and will not even try. Indeed, it is the Fed's monetary policy working the printing presses overtime for QE2 that has financed the purchase of the debt for the current all-time record deficit.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Choice in 2012</span></span></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because of the willfully mindless irresponsibility and ideological self-indulgence of Obamanomics, America is mortally vulnerable to another recession at any time soon. The result would be precisely the national bankruptcy of Greece, where we cannot raise in the world credit markets the further debt to finance what will be well over half of our budgeted federal spending. We are already borrowing and adding to the debt to finance 43% of our federal spending today.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is bad enough for a puny, insignificant nation like Greece, where riots increasingly leave the government dysfunctional, with the EU likely to take over the country effectively. But what is the effect when that happens to the world's supposed superpower? America financed World War II by running up our national debt to its all-time record as a percent of GDP (for now). But that won't be possible when we have already run ourselves into national bankruptcy.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our potential military enemies will be quite aware of this historic vulnerability of America. Just as Reagan brought us Peace through Strength, Obamanomics will be inviting War through Weakness. With a 2013 American economic collapse that will also disable the entire West, the world's uncivilized rogues from Russia, to China, to North Korea, to the Middle East Islamists dreaming of renewed world conquest, will all be tempted probably beyond resistance and reason to strike. They don't need even to attack the homeland to deal America a decisive defeat. They can just decimate our suddenly overwhelmed allies, from Israel to South Korea to Taiwan to our allies in the Middle East, let alone some even in Europe.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only way to get off this bullet train to oblivion is to radically reverse Obamanomics in dogged detail. The American people get one more chance to do that in 2012. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Pathetic yet funny:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOniq211Cqj3whSGv1asoTdvCfB5nGD4EAmrCtK_Jk9qHCeUmFSkNjNvFKLSsITpOR_B3be_Ut4eEX2eg6ZhW_HOA6LRslGzFVI7YojVl1-e2ROA3essX7FvWBxtZlgCEHlMuoXQQtKNwc/s1600/Obama+monopoly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOniq211Cqj3whSGv1asoTdvCfB5nGD4EAmrCtK_Jk9qHCeUmFSkNjNvFKLSsITpOR_B3be_Ut4eEX2eg6ZhW_HOA6LRslGzFVI7YojVl1-e2ROA3essX7FvWBxtZlgCEHlMuoXQQtKNwc/s640/Obama+monopoly.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Quote du jour:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="body" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12px;"><h2 class="border" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://thomas.loc.gov/images/dots_main.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0066cc; font: normal normal bold 105%/115% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><span style="color: #669900;">|| </span>Federalist No. 79<span style="color: #669900;"> ||</span></h2><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The Judiciary Department Continued</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Author: </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Alexander Hamilton</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support. The remark made in relation to the President is equally applicable here. In the general course of human nature, A POWER OVER A MAN's SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL. And we can never hope to see realized in practice, the complete separation of the judicial from the legislative power, in any system which leaves the former dependent for pecuniary resources on the occasional grants of the latter. The enlightened friends to good government in every State, have seen cause to lament the want of precise and explicit precautions in the State constitutions on this head. Some of these indeed have declared that PERMANENT <a href="" name="T1"></a>[</span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_79.html#1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">1</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">] salaries should be established for the judges; but the experiment has in some instances shown that such expressions are not sufficiently definite to preclude legislative evasions. Something still more positive and unequivocal has been evinced to be requisite. The plan of the convention accordingly has provided that the judges of the United States "shall at STATED TIMES receive for their services a compensation which shall not be DIMINISHED during their continuance in office."</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This, all circumstances considered, is the most eligible provision that could have been devised. It will readily be understood that the fluctuations in the value of money and in the state of society rendered a fixed rate of compensation in the Constitution inadmissible. What might be extravagant to-day, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate. It was therefore necessary to leave it to the discretion of the legislature to vary its provisions in conformity to the variations in circumstances, yet under such restrictions as to put it out of the power of that body to change the condition of the individual for the worse. A man may then be sure of the ground upon which he stands, and can never be deterred from his duty by the apprehension of being placed in a less eligible situation. The clause which has been quoted combines both advantages. The salaries of judicial officers may from time to time be altered, as occasion shall require, yet so as never to lessen the allowance with which any particular judge comes into office, in respect to him. It will be observed that a difference has been made by the convention between the compensation of the President and of the judges, That of the former can neither be increased nor diminished; that of the latter can only not be diminished. This probably arose from the difference in the duration of the respective offices. As the President is to be elected for no more than four years, it can rarely happen that an adequate salary, fixed at the commencement of that period, will not continue to be such to its end. But with regard to the judges, who, if they behave properly, will be secured in their places for life, it may well happen, especially in the early stages of the government, that a stipend, which would be very sufficient at their first appointment, would become too small in the progress of their service.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This provision for the support of the judges bears every mark of prudence and efficacy; and it may be safely affirmed that, together with the permanent tenure of their offices, it affords a better prospect of their independence than is discoverable in the constitutions of any of the States in regard to their own judges.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The precautions for their responsibility are comprised in the article respecting impeachments. They are liable to be impeached for malconduct by the House of Representatives, and tried by the Senate; and, if convicted, may be dismissed from office, and disqualified for holding any other. This is the only provision on the point which is consistent with the necessary independence of the judicial character, and is the only one which we find in our own Constitution in respect to our own judges.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The want of a provision for removing the judges on account of inability has been a subject of complaint. But all considerate men will be sensible that such a provision would either not be practiced upon or would be more liable to abuse than calculated to answer any good purpose. The mensuration of the faculties of the mind has, I believe, no place in the catalogue of known arts. An attempt to fix the boundary between the regions of ability and inability, would much oftener give scope to personal and party attachments and enmities than advance the interests of justice or the public good. The result, except in the case of insanity, must for the most part be arbitrary; and insanity, without any formal or express provision, may be safely pronounced to be a virtual disqualification.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The constitution of New York, to avoid investigations that must forever be vague and dangerous, has taken a particular age as the criterion of inability. No man can be a judge beyond sixty. I believe there are few at present who do not disapprove of this provision. There is no station, in relation to which it is less proper than to that of a judge. The deliberating and comparing faculties generally preserve their strength much beyond that period in men who survive it; and when, in addition to this circumstance, we consider how few there are who outlive the season of intellectual vigor, and how improbable it is that any considerable portion of the bench, whether more or less numerous, should be in such a situation at the same time, we shall be ready to conclude that limitations of this sort have little to recommend them. In a republic, where fortunes are not affluent, and pensions not expedient, the dismission of men from stations in which they have served their country long and usefully, on which they depend for subsistence, and from which it will be too late to resort to any other occupation for a livelihood, ought to have some better apology to humanity than is to be found in the imaginary danger of a superannuated bench.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">PUBLIUS.</span></em></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="" name="1"></a></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_79.html#T1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">1.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Vide "Constitution of Massachusetts," chapter 2, section I, article 13.</span></div><div id="main_nav_bot" style="background-color: #eff6fd; border-bottom-color: rgb(202, 228, 254); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(202, 228, 254); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; font: normal normal normal 95%/normal verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; width: auto;"></div></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></i></b></span></b></span></b></span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452873694084701422.post-2759507529863774082011-04-20T21:36:00.000-04:002011-04-20T21:36:31.177-04:00Broken Promises, broken liberal hearts<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Finally reached 200 Blog posts!</span> </i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I've been very busy working hard and supporting my family and 47% of the People who don't pay taxes...</span></i></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Obama has been in office for approximately 26 months. When he was on the campaign trail, he made so many special promises. Even though he never stopped campaigning, he has let down his liberal base on so many levels. His cool aid drinking sycophants appear to be very disillusioned and down right depressed. More importantly, Obama has lost the independents that propelled him to the Presidency. Poll after poll, he has lost ground in popularity. I believe the icing on the cake is when the "anointed one" started his own war in Libya without Congressional approval. That definitely threw the liberals into a tail spin. It is called a "Kinetic Military Action," also known as a war. We have boots on the ground. Yes, I know Barry O. said there wouldn't be any Soldiers or Marines on the ground, it has happened. Unfortunately, (for America) Obama didn't have an entrance strategy, let alone an exit strategy. Let's face it, our foreign policy is non-existent. The whole Middle East is in serious turmoil and Al Qeida is on the rise. The U.S. is giving support and arms to the rebels who in turn, have allegiances to terrorists. NATO is inept, they are already running out of munitions. Being the Father of an active duty Marine, I was hoping that we would start pulling our military out of Afghanistan. Now, we have 3 wars to contend with. Next, what about Gitmo? Campaign promise #1, "I will close Gitmo as soon as I am President." Call me a dumb, white, God-fearing, gun toting, American patriot, but, shouldn't that happened already? The stimulus is a complete failure. The President said in an interview last week that his new investment plan for America, we should invest into infrastructure. Wasn't that the same talking points when he was hawking the stimulus plan? Cash for clunkers was an astounding success. Obamacare is still as controversial as it was when it was signed into law. 1300+ waivers to date makes it appear to be a bad piece of legislation. I think all fifty states should ask for a waiver. That would take care of the issues before it goes to the Supreme Court. Unemployment is still unacceptably high. Obama said that if we passed the <s>porkulus</s> stimulus, unemployment wouldn't go above 8%. The federal government takes over banks, car companies, student loan programs, insurance companies, and Obama gets his feelings hurt when Americans complain he is a socialist. Instead of focusing on the country's problems, Obama has to butt into Arizona and Wisconsin's State issues. It isn't a good Presidential quality to comment and pander to the illegals and to the union thugs. Americans have shown what they think about our mounting national debt. Paul Ryan's debt reduction plan has a lot of good attributes, but the Senate will never pass it. I am praying for a real "Reagan like" showdown. if the republicans crumble, we will make last November just a precursor to voting out politicians who do not represent us. Obama being "Public Enemy #1." Today, the S and P down graded our rating. This is a sign that we need to get our financial house in order. This is embarrassing. The United States of America has always enjoyed a triple A rating. However, Obama and his administration has sabotaged our financial system in less than two and one half years. One of my all time favorites, " I will have the most open and transparent administrations in history." I assume that is why his secret meetings are being investigated by congress. Today, Obama and Al Sharpton, La Razza and others meet and discussed our border situation. Of course, Gov. Jan Brewer, Arizona and Gov. Rick Perry, Texas were not invited. The last points I will bring up is the Department of (In)Justice. Eric Holder should be fired a year ago. He is a racist that has more of a chip on his shoulder about this country than Obama has. Let's not forget "Big Sis," Janet Incompetano. She is an outright liar concerning the security of our southern border. The Obama administration is blatantly avoiding protecting the American citizens of the border areas just to appease the potential, illegal, democrat voters. I thought the President's most important job was to protect the American citizens? I guess it is more important to be politically correct and with ulterior motives. Let's make BHO a one term President. <b><i>Get involved!</i></b></span><br />
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font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">January 2009</span></span></b></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; 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line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TODAY</span></span></b></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">% chg</span></span></i></b></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Source</span></span></sup></b></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$1.83</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$3.44</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">84%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_6" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crude oil</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, European Brent (barrel)</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$43..48</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$99..02</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">127.7%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$38..74</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$91..38</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">135.9%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gold: London (per troy oz.)</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$853.25</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$1,369.50</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">60.5%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$3.56</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$6.33</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">78.1%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$9.66</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$13..75</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">42.3%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. </span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fob</span></span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$13..37</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$35..39</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">164.7%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unemployment rate</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, non-farm, overall</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7.6%</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9.4%</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">23.7%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unemployment rate, blacks</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12.6%</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">15.8%</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">25.4%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Number of unemployed</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11,616,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">14,485,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">24.7%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Number of fed. Employees</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2,779,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2,840,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2.2%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Real </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_8" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">median household income</span></span></span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$50,112</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$49,777</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-0.7%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Number of </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">food stamp recipients</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">31,983,716</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">43,200,878</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">35.1%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Number of </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_9" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unemployment benefit recipients</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7,526,598</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9,193,838</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">22.2%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Number of long-term unemployed</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2,600,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6,400,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">146.2%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poverty rate, individuals </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">13.2%</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">14.3%</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8.3%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">People in poverty in U.S. </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">39,800,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">43,600,000</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9.5%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U.S.</span></span><span style="color: #943634; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">n/a</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Present Situation Index </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">29.9</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">23.5</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-21.4%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Failed banks </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">140</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">164</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">17.1%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U.S.</span></span><span style="color: #943634; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Dollar versus </span></span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_10" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Japanese yen exchange rate</span></span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">89.76</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">82.03</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-8.6%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U.S.</span></span><span style="color: #943634; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span></span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_11" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Money supply</span></span></span><span style="color: #943634; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, M1, in billions </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1,575.1</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1,865.7</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">18.4%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">13</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U.S.</span></span><span style="color: #943634; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Money supply, M2, in billions </span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8,310.9</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8,852.3</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6.5%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efd3d2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">13</span></span></sup></div></div></div></td></tr>
<tr style="display: table-row; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; vertical-align: inherit;"><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 5in;" valign="top" width="480"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">National debt</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, in trillions</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 132pt;" valign="top" width="176"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$10..627</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 102.75pt;" valign="top" width="137"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">$14..052</span></span></div></div></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b8cce4; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 70.5pt;" valign="top" width="94"><div align="center" class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">32.2%</span></span></i></div></td><td style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: table-cell; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-top: 0.75pt; width: 36.75pt;" valign="top" width="49"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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</tbody></table><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="yiv1523053629MsoNormal" style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate </span><em style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">more than 27 times as fast</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> as during the rest of our entire nation's history.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sources:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wall Street Journal</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">; (3) </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #dceeff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bureau of Labor Statistics</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_14" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">RealtyTrac</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">; (10) </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heritage Foundation</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(13) </span><span style="color: #366388; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303178697_16" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Federal Reserve</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">; (14) U.S. Treasury</span></span></div></div></div></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do the right thing</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“The United States will always do the right thing—when all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Thus Winston Churchill, who, as the son of an American mother, was entitled to say such things.</span></div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a week on the road with my own 100 percent British son, visiting possible colleges from Dartmouth to Duke, I can confirm that the United States is finally getting close to doing the right thing.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ours was quite a trip. It began in New Hampshire and took in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. We saw crunchy snow in the North and felt baking sunshine in the South. And we didn’t just do colleges. We also did conferences.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad ad-300 left" data-dartad="{size:"300x250"}" data-inline="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: left; font-size: 15px; height: 250px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="NO" src="http://optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/a/6351/9674/15482-15.html?&gender=[GENDER%20VALUE%20HERE%20(i.e.%20,%20)]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300"></iframe></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The odyssey began in Bretton Woods, N.H., at the Mount Washington Hotel, where, in 1944, the foundations for the postwar global economic order were laid. The shadow of John Maynard Keynes seemed to hover over the proceedings of the second meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, founded in 2009 by George Soros.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keynes was a believer in government deficits as a short-term expedient to combat depression. But even he would have regarded America’s current fiscal trajectory as disastrous. According to the Congressional Budget Office’s alternative fiscal scenario—which it sees as politically more likely than its baseline scenario—the federal debt could hit 344 percent of GDP by 2050. Interest payments would absorb nearly all federal tax revenues.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keynes would also have been dismayed by the extent of America’s reliance on foreigners to finance its borrowing habit. Small wonder the No. 1 topic of discussion at Bretton Woods was the relationship between the United States and its primary creditor: the People’s Republic of China. The consensus at the conference was pretty clear. It’s not just that the Chinese need to wean themselves off an undervaluedexchange rate. Americans need to kick their deficit habit, and the money printing that goes with it.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conspicuous by its near absence from the discussion was the Middle East, where real wars rather than currency wars are the worry. To grapple with America’s foreign-policy challenges, we had to get ourselves from Mount Washington to Washington, D.C., and the founding meeting of the McCain Institute, a new strategic think tank to be set up this year under the auspices of the University of Arizona.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The consensus around this table was that American foreign policy was in disarray and that the Arab Spring was unlikely to be followed by a summer of love in the Middle East. But what to do, with the military already overstretched and the defense budget set to fall from 5.1 percent of GDP to 3.4 percent by 2016? Something’s got to make way for all those interest payments, after all.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The most heartening thing about our road trip was the realization that such questions are not only on the minds of statesmen and professors. The students we met were also eager to discuss finance and politics. Even Joe Public now gets it: according to Gallup, 17 percent of Americans now see the deficit as the biggest problem facing the United States, compared with just 5 percent six months ago and practically zero a year ago.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Churchill had it right. The United States will always do the right thing once all the other possibilities have been exhausted. For a long time many people clung to the delusion that the United States could simply borrow $1 trillion a year for the rest of time. Now only two possibilities remain.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first possibility is the one devised by Rep. Paul Ryan, which would eliminate the deficit largely through deep spending cuts and Medicare reform. Possibility two is President Obama’s bid to close the budget gap with more modest cuts and tax hikes on “millionaires and billionaires.”</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s a bracingly binary choice. Shrink the government. Or squeeze the rich. It will be worth my son’s coming to college in the U.S. just to see which of the two Americas he chooses.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/20/obama-snubs-issa-on-subpoena-for-atf-documents/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Obama snubs Issa on subpoena for ATF documents</a></h1><div id="subtitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="postmetadata" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="author">By <a href="http://dailycaller.com/author/jonathan-strong/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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<div class="caption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, accompanied by the committee's ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., presides over the committee's hearing on the Freedom of Information Act, Thursday, March 31, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington.</div></div></div><div class="break" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><hr /><div class="social-networking" style="height: 55px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><ul id="social-buttons" style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></ul><div class="break" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div><hr /><div id="single-articles" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 300px;"><span id="outbrainCurrentPosition"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div style="display: inline !important; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.</span></span></div></span></span></div></i></b></span></div></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Author: </span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Alexander Hamilton</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">In unfolding the defects of the existing Confederation, the utility and necessity of a federal judicature have been clearly pointed out. It is the less necessary to recapitulate the considerations there urged, as the propriety of the institution in the abstract is not disputed; the only questions which have been raised being relative to the manner of constituting it, and to its extent. To these points, therefore, our observations shall be confined.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The manner of constituting it seems to embrace these several objects: 1st. The mode of appointing the judges. 2d. The tenure by which they are to hold their places. 3d. The partition of the judiciary authority between different courts, and their relations to each other.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">First. As to the mode of appointing the judges; this is the same with that of appointing the officers of the Union in general, and has been so fully discussed in the two last numbers, that nothing can be said here which would not be useless repetition.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Second. As to the tenure by which the judges are to hold their places; this chiefly concerns their duration in office; the provisions for their support; the precautions for their responsibility.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">According to the plan of the convention, all judges who may be appointed by the United States are to hold their offices DURING GOOD BEHAVIOR; which is conformable to the most approved of the State constitutions and among the rest, to that of this State. Its propriety having been drawn into question by the adversaries of that plan, is no light symptom of the rage for objection, which disorders their imaginations and judgments. The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy, is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government. In a monarchy it is an excellent barrier to the despotism of the prince; in a republic it is a no less excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body. And it is the best expedient which can be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This simple view of the matter suggests several important consequences. It proves incontestably, that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=275950752986377408" name="T1"></a>[</span></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_78.html#1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">1</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">] ; that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks. It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=275950752986377408" name="T2"></a>[</span></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_78.html#2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">2</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">] And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments; that as all the effects of such a union must ensue from a dependence of the former on the latter, notwithstanding a nominal and apparent separation; that as, from the natural feebleness of the judiciary, it is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by its co-ordinate branches; and that as nothing can contribute so much to its firmness and independence as permanency in office, this quality may therefore be justly regarded as an indispensable ingredient in its constitution, and, in a great measure, as the citadel of the public justice and the public security.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Some perplexity respecting the rights of the courts to pronounce legislative acts void, because contrary to the Constitution, has arisen from an imagination that the doctrine would imply a superiority of the judiciary to the legislative power. It is urged that the authority which can declare the acts of another void, must necessarily be superior to the one whose acts may be declared void. As this doctrine is of great importance in all the American constitutions, a brief discussion of the ground on which it rests cannot be unacceptable.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them is conclusive upon the other departments, it may be answered, that this cannot be the natural presumption, where it is not to be collected from any particular provisions in the Constitution. It is not otherwise to be supposed, that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their WILL to that of their constituents. It is far more rational to suppose, that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority. The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people, declared in the Constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter rather than the former. They ought to regulate their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This exercise of judicial discretion, in determining between two contradictory laws, is exemplified in a familiar instance. It not uncommonly happens, that there are two statutes existing at one time, clashing in whole or in part with each other, and neither of them containing any repealing clause or expression. In such a case, it is the province of the courts to liquidate and fix their meaning and operation. So far as they can, by any fair construction, be reconciled to each other, reason and law conspire to dictate that this should be done; where this is impracticable, it becomes a matter of necessity to give effect to one, in exclusion of the other. The rule which has obtained in the courts for determining their relative validity is, that the last in order of time shall be preferred to the first. But this is a mere rule of construction, not derived from any positive law, but from the nature and reason of the thing. It is a rule not enjoined upon the courts by legislative provision, but adopted by themselves, as consonant to truth and propriety, for the direction of their conduct as interpreters of the law. They thought it reasonable, that between the interfering acts of an EQUAL authority, that which was the last indication of its will should have the preference.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But in regard to the interfering acts of a superior and subordinate authority, of an original and derivative power, the nature and reason of the thing indicate the converse of that rule as proper to be followed. They teach us that the prior act of a superior ought to be preferred to the subsequent act of an inferior and subordinate authority; and that accordingly, whenever a particular statute contravenes the Constitution, it will be the duty of the judicial tribunals to adhere to the latter and disregard the former.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It can be of no weight to say that the courts, on the pretense of a repugnancy, may substitute their own pleasure to the constitutional intentions of the legislature. This might as well happen in the case of two contradictory statutes; or it might as well happen in every adjudication upon any single statute. The courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise WILL instead of JUDGMENT, the consequence would equally be the substitution of their pleasure to that of the legislative body. The observation, if it prove any thing, would prove that there ought to be no judges distinct from that body.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among the people themselves, and which, though they speedily give place to better information, and more deliberate reflection, have a tendency, in the meantime, to occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppressions of the minor party in the community. Though I trust the friends of the proposed Constitution will never concur with its enemies, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=275950752986377408" name="T3"></a>[</span></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_78.html#3" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">3</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">] in questioning that fundamental principle of republican government, which admits the right of the people to alter or abolish the established Constitution, whenever they find it inconsistent with their happiness, yet it is not to be inferred from this principle, that the representatives of the people, whenever a momentary inclination happens to lay hold of a majority of their constituents, incompatible with the provisions in the existing Constitution, would, on that account, be justifiable in a violation of those provisions; or that the courts would be under a greater obligation to connive at infractions in this shape, than when they had proceeded wholly from the cabals of the representative body. Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon themselves collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption, or even knowledge, of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives in a departure from it, prior to such an act. But it is easy to see, that it would require an uncommon portion of fortitude in the judges to do their duty as faithful guardians of the Constitution, where legislative invasions of it had been instigated by the major voice of the community.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But it is not with a view to infractions of the Constitution only, that the independence of the judges may be an essential safeguard against the effects of occasional ill humors in the society. These sometimes extend no farther than to the injury of the private rights of particular classes of citizens, by unjust and partial laws. Here also the firmness of the judicial magistracy is of vast importance in mitigating the severity and confining the operation of such laws. It not only serves to moderate the immediate mischiefs of those which may have been passed, but it operates as a check upon the legislative body in passing them; who, perceiving that obstacles to the success of iniquitous intention are to be expected from the scruples of the courts, are in a manner compelled, by the very motives of the injustice they meditate, to qualify their attempts. This is a circumstance calculated to have more influence upon the character of our governments, than but few may be aware of. The benefits of the integrity and moderation of the judiciary have already been felt in more States than one; and though they may have displeased those whose sinister expectations they may have disappointed, they must have commanded the esteem and applause of all the virtuous and disinterested. Considerate men, of every description, ought to prize whatever will tend to beget or fortify that temper in the courts: as no man can be sure that he may not be to-morrow the victim of a spirit of injustice, by which he may be a gainer to-day. And every man must now feel, that the inevitable tendency of such a spirit is to sap the foundations of public and private confidence, and to introduce in its stead universal distrust and distress.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">That inflexible and uniform adherence to the rights of the Constitution, and of individuals, which we perceive to be indispensable in the courts of justice, can certainly not be expected from judges who hold their offices by a temporary commission. Periodical appointments, however regulated, or by whomsoever made, would, in some way or other, be fatal to their necessary independence. If the power of making them was committed either to the Executive or legislature, there would be danger of an improper complaisance to the branch which possessed it; if to both, there would be an unwillingness to hazard the displeasure of either; if to the people, or to persons chosen by them for the special purpose, there would be too great a disposition to consult popularity, to justify a reliance that nothing would be consulted but the Constitution and the laws.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">There is yet a further and a weightier reason for the permanency of the judicial offices, which is deducible from the nature of the qualifications they require. It has been frequently remarked, with great propriety, that a voluminous code of laws is one of the inconveniences necessarily connected with the advantages of a free government. To avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts, it is indispensable that they should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular case that comes before them; and it will readily be conceived from the variety of controversies which grow out of the folly and wickedness of mankind, that the records of those precedents must unavoidably swell to a very considerable bulk, and must demand long and laborious study to acquire a competent knowledge of them. Hence it is, that there can be but few men in the society who will have sufficient skill in the laws to qualify them for the stations of judges. And making the proper deductions for the ordinary depravity of human nature, the number must be still smaller of those who unite the requisite integrity with the requisite knowledge. These considerations apprise us, that the government can have no great option between fit character; and that a temporary duration in office, which would naturally discourage such characters from quitting a lucrative line of practice to accept a seat on the bench, would have a tendency to throw the administration of justice into hands less able, and less well qualified, to conduct it with utility and dignity. In the present circumstances of this country, and in those in which it is likely to be for a long time to come, the disadvantages on this score would be greater than they may at first sight appear; but it must be confessed, that they are far inferior to those which present themselves under the other aspects of the subject.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Upon the whole, there can be no room to doubt that the convention acted wisely in copying from the models of those constitutions which have established GOOD BEHAVIOR as the tenure of their judicial offices, in point of duration; and that so far from being blamable on this account, their plan would have been inexcusably defective, if it had wanted this important feature of good government. The experience of Great Britain affords an illustrious comment on the excellence of the institution.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 232, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">PUBLIUS.</span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=275950752986377408" name="1"></a></span></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_78.html#T1" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">1.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> The celebrated Montesquieu, speaking of them, says: "Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing." "Spirit of Laws." vol. i., page 186.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=275950752986377408" name="2"></a></span></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_78.html#T2" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">2.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Idem, page 181.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4452873694084701422&postID=275950752986377408" name="3"></a></span></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_78.html#T3" style="font-weight: 100; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">3.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Vide "Protest of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania," Martin's Speech, etc.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">www.drudgereport.com</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">www.americanthinker.com</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">www.thehill.com</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMeqEyHEIZJYDV9BVCODJeGQWcF_gme6ezJduZcizij5qmb2wcmVaa9jzLGM5gfgTFLLpcn7JqabceT-FVZPBuSiAltm3jQdcQ5BgUhLuWKExeJIm2v3OpZgNhqf4-2WDrthqC6t5VI0q/s1600/Obama+bankrupt+the+country.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMeqEyHEIZJYDV9BVCODJeGQWcF_gme6ezJduZcizij5qmb2wcmVaa9jzLGM5gfgTFLLpcn7JqabceT-FVZPBuSiAltm3jQdcQ5BgUhLuWKExeJIm2v3OpZgNhqf4-2WDrthqC6t5VI0q/s320/Obama+bankrupt+the+country.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Wisconsin standoff has lasted two weeks. The sissy Wisconsin State democrats exiled to the People's republic of Illinois to hide in shame. We can call Wisconsin ground zero, however, this issue has spread like wild fire throughout the country. What is the real issue? Is it collective bargaining (right of entitlements)? Or is it simply the state governments just trying to break the unions? First, I think you would admit that government union employee entitlement programs are seriously costing the states and municipalities a huge portion of their overall revenue. My, what a wicked web we weave. The union member pays union dues to the union, the union contributes huge money to the democrat politician running for office, gets the democrat elected, then bargains these cushy entitlement deals for the unions. If this was private sector, I'm sure laws would be broken. Notice how the democrats who should be concerned with the pathetic state of our nation's economy, comments on the poor unions and the brutal assault on the working middle class workers and their families. What about the millions of Americans that work their butts off to put 5 to 10% of their incomes in a 401K and pay hundreds of dollars towards their healthcare expenses? Should those people also pay 95% to 100% of the government union members pensions and healthcare debt service through higher taxes? NO, they should not. The teachers unions are the most temperamental, because they teach our kids. I am so happy my Son is grown and I don't have to deal with him being indoctrinated into the progressives' army. Wisconsin, in example, eighth graders cannot read proficiently. Wisconsin hardly can fire a teacher, seniority rules, even for bad teachers and so on. This has to stop. This can bankrupt the states and ultimately, the country. I written in previous posts, I believe we need to get rid of the Department of Education. Education needs to be ran from the state level. Union heads like Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO, portrays what Governor Walker State plans is an attack on all unions. To the contrary, this couldn't be farther from the truth. Wisconsin's plan would strengthen private unions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 41 states, public union members make more than their private sector counterparts. I guess it is all about "workers unite"? Some of the media is drawing comparisons between unions and socialist/communist groups. I can say first hand, at the Tea party rallies, you would never see a socialist or communist party attendance in any form, unless they were protesting us, the Tea Partiers. Not to mention, the liberal union members are getting violent as the days pass by. Mike Tobin, Fox reporter, was assaulted by a union protester, they really don't want any other opinion except their own. So much for first amendment rights and freedom of the press. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Will the American people and the union liberals end up in riots? It sure seems that is a possibility. If the Wisconsin issue continues and the union thugs get more inpatient, and you have the American taxpayer tired of being taxed for the wrong reasons. I promise you, we will not back down. It could turn out to be a deja vu' of the 1968 riots. I have never been a fan of unions and my Father was a union democrat all his life. Yes, it was very interesting in my family's house at dinner. In closing, I hope Wisconsin stays the course and wins this battle to save their state. Maybe then, the other fragile states will follow suit. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But this ad makes one of Scott Walker’s strongest points for him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The public-sector unions have successfully shifted the conversation in Wisconsin to collective bargaining — they claim it’s not about the money, having conceded Walker’s financial demands. Yet they are using the sacrosanct concept of “collective bargaining” as a carapace to protect what they truly value: union dues.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Public-sector unions use these compulsory dues to run ads like this one. WEAC, the state’s largest teachers’ union, reports spending $3.6 million on such ads in the past two election cycles.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Walker’s plan allows union members to discontinue paying these dues. When Gov. Mitch Daniels gave them the option in 2005, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">95 percent</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> of Indiana’s public-sector workers chose to halt paying their dues. If such a thing were to happen in Wisconsin, it would harm the attempts of public-sector unions to elect sympathetic lawmakers (who then do things like fleeing to other states to protect the unions’ revenue stream).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The next time Walker speaks to public-sector-union members, he should pull out a copy of the “Prank Call” ad. He should ask the workers whether they’d rather pay for political ads or keep that money in their pockets. Somehow, I don’t think union leadership would like the answer.</span><br />
<span class="bioline" style="color: #666666;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">— Christian Schneider is a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.</span></i></span><br />
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I am sending the attached short speech from Winston Churchill, delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It probably sets out the current views of many but expressed in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language, of which he was a past master. Sir Winston Churchill was, without doubt, one of the greatest men of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and Prime Minister, to whom the Western world must be forever in his debt. He was a prophet in</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">his own time. He died on 24 January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and, after a lifetime of service to</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">his country, and was accorded a State funeral.
HERE IS THE SPEECH:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce,</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
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</span>A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child,</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">great power among men.
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</span><span style="color: #fe0008;">Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development</span></span><span style="color: #fe0008; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="color: #fe0008; font-size: 11pt;">of those who follow it.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 London )</span><span style="color: #333129; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-alt: 16.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Is this why Obama returned the bust of Winston Churchill?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; margin-bottom: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #333129; font-size: 11pt;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Quote du jour:</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; margin-bottom: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"></div></td></tr>
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From the New York Packet.<br />
Friday, April 4, 1788.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Author: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Alexander Hamilton</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">IT HAS been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co-operation of the Senate, in the business of appointments, that it would contribute to the stability of the administration. The consent of that body would be necessary to displace as well as to appoint. A change of the Chief Magistrate, therefore, would not occasion so violent or so general a revolution in the officers of the government as might be expected, if he were the sole disposer of offices. Where a man in any station had given satisfactory evidence of his fitness for it, a new President would be restrained from attempting a change in favor of a person more agreeable to him, by the apprehension that a discountenance of the Senate might frustrate the attempt, and bring some degree of discredit upon himself. Those who can best estimate the value of a steady administration, will be most disposed to prize a provision which connects the official existence of public men with the approbation or disapprobation of that body which, from the greater permanency of its own composition, will in all probability be less subject to inconstancy than any other member of the government.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To this union of the Senate with the President, in the article of appointments, it has in some cases been suggested that it would serve to give the President an undue influence over the Senate, and in others that it would have an opposite tendency, a strong proof that neither suggestion is true.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To state the first in its proper form, is to refute it. It amounts to this: the President would have an improper INFLUENCE OVER the Senate, because the Senate would have the power of RESTRAINING him. This is an absurdity in terms. It cannot admit of a doubt that the entire power of appointment would enable him much more effectually to establish a dangerous empire over that body, than a mere power of nomination subject to their control.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Let us take a view of the converse of the proposition: "the Senate would influence the Executive." As I have had occasion to remark in several other instances, the indistinctness of the objection forbids a precise answer. In what manner is this influence to be exerted? In relation to what objects? The power of influencing a person, in the sense in which it is here used, must imply a power of conferring a benefit upon him. How could the Senate confer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employing their right of negative upon his nominations? If it be said they might sometimes gratify him by an acquiescence in a favorite choice, when public motives might dictate a different conduct, I answer, that the instances in which the President could be personally interested in the result, would be too few to admit of his being materially affected by the compliances of the Senate. The POWER which can ORIGINATE the disposition of honors and emoluments, is more likely to attract than to be attracted by the POWER which can merely obstruct their course. If by influencing the President be meant RESTRAINING him, this is precisely what must have been intended. And it has been shown that the restraint would be salutary, at the same time that it would not be such as to destroy a single advantage to be looked for from the uncontrolled agency of that Magistrate. The right of nomination would produce all the good of that of appointment, and would in a great measure avoid its evils. Upon a comparison of the plan for the appointment of the officers of the proposed government with that which is established by the constitution of this State, a decided preference must be given to the former. In that plan the power of nomination is unequivocally vested in the Executive. And as there would be a necessity for submitting each nomination to the judgment of an entire branch of the legislature, the circumstances attending an appointment, from the mode of conducting it, would naturally become matters of notoriety; and the public would be at no loss to determine what part had been performed by the different actors. The blame of a bad nomination would fall upon the President singly and absolutely. The censure of rejecting a good one would lie entirely at the door of the Senate; aggravated by the consideration of their having counteracted the good intentions of the Executive. If an ill appointment should be made, the Executive for nominating, and the Senate for approving, would participate, though in different degrees, in the opprobrium and disgrace.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The reverse of all this characterizes the manner of appointment in this State. The council of appointment consists of from three to five persons, of whom the governor is always one. This small body, shut up in a private apartment, impenetrable to the public eye, proceed to the execution of the trust committed to them. It is known that the governor claims the right of nomination, upon the strength of some ambiguous expressions in the constitution; but it is not known to what extent, or in what manner he exercises it; nor upon what occasions he is contradicted or opposed. The censure of a bad appointment, on account of the uncertainty of its author, and for want of a determinate object, has neither poignancy nor duration. And while an unbounded field for cabal and intrigue lies open, all idea of responsibility is lost. The most that the public can know, is that the governor claims the right of nomination; that TWO out of the inconsiderable number of FOUR men can too often be managed without much difficulty; that if some of the members of a particular council should happen to be of an uncomplying character, it is frequently not impossible to get rid of their opposition by regulating the times of meeting in such a manner as to render their attendance inconvenient; and that from whatever cause it may proceed, a great number of very improper appointments are from time to time made. Whether a governor of this State avails himself of the ascendant he must necessarily have, in this delicate and important part of the administration, to prefer to offices men who are best qualified for them, or whether he prostitutes that advantage to the advancement of persons whose chief merit is their implicit devotion to his will, and to the support of a despicable and dangerous system of personal influence, are questions which, unfortunately for the community, can only be the subjects of speculation and conjecture.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Every mere council of appointment, however constituted, will be a conclave, in which cabal and intrigue will have their full scope. Their number, without an unwarrantable increase of expense, cannot be large enough to preclude a facility of combination. And as each member will have his friends and connections to provide for, the desire of mutual gratification will beget a scandalous bartering of votes and bargaining for places. The private attachments of one man might easily be satisfied; but to satisfy the private attachments of a dozen, or of twenty men, would occasion a monopoly of all the principal employments of the government in a few families, and would lead more directly to an aristocracy or an oligarchy than any measure that could be contrived. If, to avoid an accumulation of offices, there was to be a frequent change in the persons who were to compose the council, this would involve the mischiefs of a mutable administration in their full extent. Such a council would also be more liable to executive influence than the Senate, because they would be fewer in number, and would act less immediately under the public inspection. Such a council, in fine, as a substitute for the plan of the convention, would be productive of an increase of expense, a multiplication of the evils which spring from favoritism and intrigue in the distribution of public honors, a decrease of stability in the administration of the government, and a diminution of the security against an undue influence of the Executive. And yet such a council has been warmly contended for as an essential amendment in the proposed Constitution.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I could not with propriety conclude my observations on the subject of appointments without taking notice of a scheme for which there have appeared some, though but few advocates; I mean that of uniting the House of Representatives in the power of making them. I shall, however, do little more than mention it, as I cannot imagine that it is likely to gain the countenance of any considerable part of the community. A body so fluctuating and at the same time so numerous, can never be deemed proper for the exercise of that power. Its unfitness will appear manifest to all, when it is recollected that in half a century it may consist of three or four hundred persons. All the advantages of the stability, both of the Executive and of the Senate, would be defeated by this union, and infinite delays and embarrassments would be occasioned. The example of most of the States in their local constitutions encourages us to reprobate the idea.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The only remaining powers of the Executive are comprehended in giving information to Congress of the state of the Union; in recommending to their consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient; in convening them, or either branch, upon extraordinary occasions; in adjourning them when they cannot themselves agree upon the time of adjournment; in receiving ambassadors and other public ministers; in faithfully executing the laws; and in commissioning all the officers of the United States.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Except some cavils about the power of convening EITHER house of the legislature, and that of receiving ambassadors, no objection has been made to this class of authorities; nor could they possibly admit of any. It required, indeed, an insatiable avidity for censure to invent exceptions to the parts which have been excepted to. In regard to the power of convening either house of the legislature, I shall barely remark, that in respect to the Senate at least, we can readily discover a good reason for it. AS this body has a concurrent power with the Executive in the article of treaties, it might often be necessary to call it together with a view to this object, when it would be unnecessary and improper to convene the House of Representatives. As to the reception of ambassadors, what I have said in a former paper will furnish a sufficient answer.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We have now completed a survey of the structure and powers of the executive department, which, I have endeavored to show, combines, as far as republican principles will admit, all the requisites to energy. The remaining inquiry is: Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense, a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility? The answer to this question has been anticipated in the investigation of its other characteristics, and is satisfactorily deducible from these circumstances; from the election of the President once in four years by persons immediately chosen by the people for that purpose; and from his being at all times liable to impeachment, trial, dismission from office, incapacity to serve in any other, and to forfeiture of life and estate by subsequent prosecution in the common course of law. But these precautions, great as they are, are not the only ones which the plan of the convention has provided in favor of the public security. In the only instances in which the abuse of the executive authority was materially to be feared, the Chief Magistrate of the United States would, by that plan, be subjected to the control of a branch of the legislative body. What more could be desired by an enlightened and reasonable people?</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">PUBLIUS.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Run Dems Run!</i></b><i> </i>The media is blatantly complicit in this latest union protest in Milwaukee. Duh! you say. Fox News is the only news platform that showed the despicably, violent signs the union members displayed at the rallies. Wisconsin's governor Scott Walker realizes the state of Wisconsin is out of money. The unions don't care. The (regular) people of Wisconsin support Governor Walker and how he is standing up against the unions. Walker and the republican senate are up against more than just the unions. Some of the distinguished attendees are communists and socialists party members, Organizing for America (Obama's group), a plethora of unions, the DNC and Obama himself. Realizing that this is his voting base and cash cow.Have the cowardly Wisconsin democrats broken any Wisconsin laws by fleeing the state to avoid performing their elected duties? What does the rest of the world think about the childlike actions by the democrat runaways? Pathetic at best. The U.S. tries to tell the world what to do and we can't even govern ourselves. I have had the privilege to attend a few Tea Party rallies (912) in Washington, DC. They were always peaceful, respectful, friendly, very patriotic and we cleaned up after ourselves. However, to the lame stream media, we were a bunch of homegrown terrorists/racists ready to overthrow the government. The difference between the right and the left is the media. Have you seen the utter hatred, name calling or violent language from the union thugs and commies on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC or Al Jehezera? Of course not. In the bigger picture, I think we will see other states to making changes their pensions and healthcare. It is collective bargaining. The same cuts to their budgets and changing the ridiculous entitlement programs which have caused the deficits. Collective bargaining is the culprit. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Collective bargaining in fact, has facilitated the trade unions to manipulate the state, local and municipal governments in surrendering lucrative entitlement programs the governments can not afford. Hence, ballooning deficits, layoffs and reductions to constituents instead of the union members. One example I saw from an union member's compensation was $1100 in union dues and $0 contributed to his pension. Why should the taxpayers of any state pay 100 % of a government workers pension or healthcare? They most likely do not receive the same benefits. Governors Christie in NJ, Cuomo in NY, Kasick in Ohio and others are standing up to the unions and trying to become fiscally responsible. The past Governors have avoided dealing with this issue and have kicked the can down the road for years. This is the day of reckoning. With the new batch of conservatives and Tea Party candidates elected this past November, they are making a concerted effort to change the union government employees entitlements. The federal government is going to have to follow suit. Otherwise, I see a government shutdown. Would anyone notice? The democrat Senate will probably change the House's bill and then it will have to go back to the House for approval. That will be the problem. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Madness in Madison:</b></span><br />
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Currently, most state employees pay nothing for their pensions and virtually nothing for their health insurance. That's an outrage.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nationwide, state and local government unions have a 45 percent total-compensation advantage over their private-sector counterpart. With high-pay compensation and virtually no benefits co-pay, the politically arrogant unions are bankrupting America -- which by some estimates is suffering from $3 trillion in unfunded liabilities.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Exempting police, fire, and state troopers, Governor Walker would end collective bargaining over pensions and benefits for the rest. Collective bargaining for wages would still be permitted, but there would be no wage hikes above the CPI. Unions could still represent workers, but they could not force employees to pay dues. In exchange for this, Walker promises no furloughs for layoffs.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is also pushing a bill to limit the collective-bargaining rights of teachers for wages and wage-related benefits. Similar proposals are being discussed in Idaho and Tennessee. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich wants to restrict union rights across-the-board for all state and local government workers. More generally, both Democratic and Republican governors across the country are taking on the extravagant pay of government unions.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why? Because taxpayers won't stand for it anymore.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In an interesting twist on this story, even private unions are revolting against government unions. Private unions pay taxes, too. And they don't have near the total compensation of the public unions. It's no wonder they're fed up.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So, having lost badly in the last election, the government-union Democrats in Wisconsin have taken to the streets. This is a European-style revolt, like those seen in </span></span><a class="external_link" href="http://realclearworld.com/topic/around_the_world/greece/?utm_source=rcw&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=rcwautolink" style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greece</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a class="external_link" href="http://realclearworld.com/topic/around_the_world/france/?utm_source=rcw&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=rcwautolink" style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">France</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and elsewhere. So it becomes greater than just a fiscal issue. It is becoming a law-and-order issue.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">President Obama, who keeps telling us he's a budget cutter, has taken the side of the public unions. John Boehner correctly rapped Obama's knuckles for this. If the state of Wisconsin voters elected a Chris Christie-type governor with a Republican legislature, then it is a local states' rights issue.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But does President Obama even know that the scope of collective bargaining for federal employees is sharply limited? According to the Manhattan Institute, federal workers are forbidden to collectively bargain for wages or benefits. Instead, pay increases are determined annually through legislation.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, Gov. Scott Walker said it would be "wise" for President Obama to keep his attentions on Washington, not Wisconsin. "We're focused on balancing our budget," he said in a television interview. "It would be wise for the president and others in Washington to be focused on balancing their budget, which they're a long ways from doing."</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Amen.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Obama should stay out. And Governor Walker should stand tall and stick to his principles. A nationwide taxpayer revolt against public unions can save the country.</span></span></div></div><div id="article-author" style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><div id="article-author" style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lawrence Kudlow is host of CNBC's The Kudlow Report and co-host of The Call. He is also a former Reagan economic advisor and a syndicated columnist. 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<div class="pagetools" style="color: black; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He also wants public employees to begin contributing 5.8 percent to their pension plans. (Currently, most of them contribute nothing to their plans.) On health care, he would like them to increase their contributions to 12.6 percent, up from 4 to 6 percent. Taken together, the two measures would result in what amounts to 8 percent pay cuts for state workers. The changes would also save the state — which is facing a budget shortfall of $137 million this fiscal year — $30 million over the next few months. More important, they would save $300 million over the following two fiscal years, when Wisconsin is facing a $3.6 billion deficit.</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“We look at wage and benefit costs and we believe we’ve got to have as much flexibility as possible,” Walker said in an interview with</span><span class="small_caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">National Review Online</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. “It’s not a matter of picking on public employees, who are doing a good job; it’s just a matter of saying this all has got to be put in balance. And when you compare that to what others are facing outside of government,” he adds, “it certainly is fair.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“This isn’t going to be a bloodless move,” predicts Christian Schneider, a fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. He points out that the state has “a long history of public-employee-union activism.” While public employees can’t strike in Wisconsin, Schneider suspects they will find other ways — whether it’s teachers’ ceasing after-school activities, or correctional-facility employees’ refusing to work overtime — to “take their case to the public” and make any attempt at reform as politically toxic as possible.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There has already been significant backlash. Over 10,000 union supporters protested at the state capitol Tuesday, and the Wisconsin branch of the AFL-CIO is running radio and TV ads blasting the cuts.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And although both the state senate and the assembly have Republican majorities, passing this reform package could prove difficult. Republican senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald told the Associated Press earlier this month that changing the law governing collective bargaining would be a “walk through hell.” Right now, it looks as if the legislature is determined to press on with the reform and deal with the political consequences later. A vote could be held as early as today.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whatever the political fallout from the collective-bargaining reforms, there may at least be wide public support for Walker’s pension-contribution push, a measure that he touted during his campaign. It proved wildly popular with voters: 76 percent of Wisconsin residents thought public employees “should contribute to their own pensions,” according to a poll commissioned by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute last summer.</span></div></div></div></div></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Walker is hoping that a civil approach toward union members will help defuse tensions. Unlike Christie, whose confrontational remarks have won him a devoted YouTube following, Walker sees politeness as a crucial part of his strategy: “I’ve bent over backwards,” he says, “to make it clear that the proposed reforms in no way reflect on my opinion of our state employees, who I think overwhelmingly are good, hardworking, decent employees.”</div></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Over in Ohio, Kasich is also looking at a series of aggressive steps. The former congressman and Fox News host is considering barring public-school teachers from striking, rescinding an executive order issued by his predecessor that unionized home health-care workers and child-care employees, and banning binding arbitration.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I don’t know if you all know what binding arbitration is,” Kasich said in a speech late last year. “When there’s a labor dispute, they bring somebody in from Kokomo, Indiana. He comes into Ohio. He imposes a settlement on our cities. He goes back to Kokomo — and we pay the bill.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Certainly Ohio faces a problem with overpaid government workers. According to a July report by the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, an Ohio think tank, the median salary for state-government employees ($36,858) is 24.6 percent higher than the median salary ($29,586) for employees in the private sector. It should come as no surprise, then, that half of Ohio voters “think government leaders should first reduce government worker compensation to eliminate the $8 billion state budget deficit,” according to a July poll commissioned by the Buckeye Institute.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But the institute’s Matt Mayer also thinks that Kasich needs to put abolishing collective bargaining on the table. He points out that only about 14 percent of all contracts over the last eleven years have involved strikes or binding arbitration. “Even if you did eliminate those provisions,” he says, “they’ve had such little impact on the cost curve of government contracts. The vast majority — 86 percent — are due to the existence of collective bargaining.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Republican state senator Shannon Jones introduced legislation last week that would end collective bargaining for state employees. “The governor is certainly supportive of the principles in Senate Bill 5,” says Connie Wehrkamp, a spokeswoman for Kasich. “In general, he’s supportive of limiting the scope of collective bargaining, and bringing back some balance between the taxpayers and the public employees.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jones’s bill has predictably angered the unions, with hundreds of union supporters protesting at the Ohio Statehouse Tuesday. Kasich, too, has already come under fire from the unions. “They’ve attacked the governor kind of non-stop since he walked in,” says Mayer. “We know that they’re going to mobilize the teachers, the cops, the firefighters, all the workers in each district of the house and senate to put even greater pressure on them on these issues.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Both Walker and Kasich have plenty of work to do — and legislative battles to win — before they can claim the Christie mantle. But if they are able to stand firm, and not buckle under pressure from the unions, there will be three governors next year disproving the conventional wisdom that tackling the unions is a political kamikaze mission.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bioline" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">— </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Katrina Trinko is an</span></em><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NRO </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">staff reporter.</span></em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bioline" style="color: #666666;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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From the New York Packet.<br />
Tuesday, April 1, 1788.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Author: Alexander Hamilton</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To the People of the State of New York:</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">THE President is "to NOMINATE, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not otherwise provided for in the Constitution. But the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper, in the President alone, or in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. The President shall have power to fill up ALL VACANCIES which may happen DURING THE RECESS OF THE SENATE, by granting commissions which shall EXPIRE at the end of their next session."</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It has been observed in a former paper, that "the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration." If the justness of this observation be admitted, the mode of appointing the officers of the United States contained in the foregoing clauses, must, when examined, be allowed to be entitled to particular commendation. It is not easy to conceive a plan better calculated than this to promote a judicious choice of men for filling the offices of the Union; and it will not need proof, that on this point must essentially depend the character of its administration.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It will be agreed on all hands, that the power of appointment, in ordinary cases, ought to be modified in one of three ways. It ought either to be vested in a single man, or in a SELECT assembly of a moderate number; or in a single man, with the concurrence of such an assembly. The exercise of it by the people at large will be readily admitted to be impracticable; as waiving every other consideration, it would leave them little time to do anything else. When, therefore, mention is made in the subsequent reasonings of an assembly or body of men, what is said must be understood to relate to a select body or assembly, of the description already given. The people collectively, from their number and from their dispersed situation, cannot be regulated in their movements by that systematic spirit of cabal and intrigue, which will be urged as the chief objections to reposing the power in question in a body of men.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Those who have themselves reflected upon the subject, or who have attended to the observations made in other parts of these papers, in relation to the appointment of the President, will, I presume, agree to the position, that there would always be great probability of having the place supplied by a man of abilities, at least respectable. Premising this, I proceed to lay it down as a rule, that one man of discernment is better fitted to analyze and estimate the peculiar qualities adapted to particular offices, than a body of men of equal or perhaps even of superior discernment.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The sole and undivided responsibility of one man will naturally beget a livelier sense of duty and a more exact regard to reputation. He will, on this account, feel himself under stronger obligations, and more interested to investigate with care the qualities requisite to the stations to be filled, and to prefer with impartiality the persons who may have the fairest pretensions to them. He will have FEWER personal attachments to gratify, than a body of men who may each be supposed to have an equal number; and will be so much the less liable to be misled by the sentiments of friendship and of affection. A single well-directed man, by a single understanding, cannot be distracted and warped by that diversity of views, feelings, and interests, which frequently distract and warp the resolutions of a collective body. There is nothing so apt to agitate the passions of mankind as personal considerations whether they relate to ourselves or to others, who are to be the objects of our choice or preference. Hence, in every exercise of the power of appointing to offices, by an assembly of men, we must expect to see a full display of all the private and party likings and dislikes, partiality's and antipathies, attachments and animosities, which are felt by those who compose the assembly. The choice which may at any time happen to be made under such circumstances, will of course be the result either of a victory gained by one party over the other, or of a compromise between the parties. In either case, the intrinsic merit of the candidate will be too often out of sight. In the first, the qualifications best adapted to uniting the suffrage's of the party, will be more considered than those which fit the person for the station. In the last, the coalition will commonly turn upon some interested equivalent: "Give us the man we wish for this office, and you shall have the one you wish for that." This will be the usual condition of the bargain. And it will rarely happen that the advancement of the public service will be the primary object either of party victories or of party negotiations.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The truth of the principles here advanced seems to have been felt by the most intelligent of those who have found fault with the provision made, in this respect, by the convention. They contend that the President ought solely to have been authorized to make the appointments under the federal government. But it is easy to show, that every advantage to be expected from such an arrangement would, in substance, be derived from the power of NOMINATION, which is proposed to be conferred upon him; while several disadvantages which might attend the absolute power of appointment in the hands of that officer would be avoided. In the act of nomination, his judgment alone would be exercised; and as it would be his sole duty to point out the man who, with the approbation of the Senate, should fill an office, his responsibility would be as complete as if he were to make the final appointment. There can, in this view, be no difference between nominating and appointing. The same motives which would influence a proper discharge of his duty in one case, would exist in the other. And as no man could be appointed but on his previous nomination, every man who might be appointed would be, in fact, his choice.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But might not his nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be the object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled. The Senate could not be tempted, by the preference they might feel to another, to reject the one proposed; because they could not assure themselves, that the person they might wish would be brought forward by a second or by any subsequent nomination. They could not even be certain, that a future nomination would present a candidate in any degree more acceptable to them; and as their dissent might cast a kind of stigma upon the individual rejected, and might have the appearance of a reflection upon the judgment of the chief magistrate, it is not likely that their sanction would often be refused, where there were not special and strong reasons for the refusal.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To what purpose then require the co-operation of the Senate? I answer, that the necessity of their concurrence would have a powerful, though, in general, a silent operation. It would be an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the President, and would tend greatly to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity. In addition to this, it would be an efficacious source of stability in the administration.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">It will readily be comprehended, that a man who had himself the sole disposition of offices, would be governed much more by his private inclinations and interests, than when he was bound to submit the propriety of his choice to the discussion and determination of a different and independent body, and that body an entire branch of the legislature. The possibility of rejection would be a strong motive to care in proposing. The danger to his own reputation, and, in the case of an elective magistrate, to his political existence, from betraying a spirit of favoritism, or an unbecoming pursuit of popularity, to the observation of a body whose opinion would have great weight in forming that of the public, could not fail to operate as a barrier to the one and to the other. He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">To this reasoning it has been objected that the President, by the influence of the power of nomination, may secure the complaisance of the Senate to his views. This supposition of universal venality in human nature is little less an error in political reasoning, than the supposition of universal rectitude. The institution of delegated power implies, that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind, which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence; and experience justifies the theory. It has been found to exist in the most corrupt periods of the most corrupt governments. The venality of the British House of Commons has been long a topic of accusation against that body, in the country to which they belong as well as in this; and it cannot be doubted that the charge is, to a considerable extent, well founded. But it is as little to be doubted, that there is always a large proportion of the body, which consists of independent and public-spirited men, who have an influential weight in the councils of the nation. Hence it is (the present reign not excepted) that the sense of that body is often seen to control the inclinations of the monarch, both with regard to men and to measures. Though it might therefore be allowable to suppose that the Executive might occasionally influence some individuals in the Senate, yet the supposition, that he could in general purchase the integrity of the whole body, would be forced and improbable. A man disposed to view human nature as it is, without either flattering its virtues or exaggerating its vices, will see sufficient ground of confidence in the probity of the Senate, to rest satisfied, not only that it will be impracticable to the Executive to corrupt or seduce a majority of its members, but that the necessity of its co-operation, in the business of appointments, will be a considerable and salutary restraint upon the conduct of that magistrate. Nor is the integrity of the Senate the only reliance. The Constitution has provided some important guards against the danger of executive influence upon the legislative body: it declares that "No senator or representative shall during the time FOR WHICH HE WAS ELECTED, be appointed to any civil office under the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time; and no person, holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office."</span></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">PUBLIUS.</span></em></div><div style="line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452873694084701422.post-4083611400539472122010-12-03T21:33:00.002-05:002010-12-03T21:59:20.194-05:00Tick Tock for Taxes<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Volume 195</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After being on vacation out of the country, I noticed how differently people perceive American politics. It amazed me, how many people expect the U.S. Federal Government to be the world's nanny. They should do this and they should do that. Why? How did we become everything to everyone? Most people and places that have their hand out, do not like us. So, with our faltering economy barely staying above water, why are we spending billions of dollars that we don't have? Our congress has waited until the last month before the Bush tax cuts expire to start debating it. And they wonder why many of them lost their jobs and have one of the lowest approval ratings in history. It drives me batty to see the congressional morons play politics with our future. Austan Goolsbee, Serving as Obama's Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is simply a talking head for the liberals. I think he is incompetent. I saw him in an interview, he couldn't even tow the line for the liberal Obama administration. He reiterated what Nancy Pelosi said, where food stamps and unemployment are good for the economy. What business school did they go to? Keynesian economics has never worked, why does this administration push this concept, when they know it will not work? The unemployment report shocked the media today, when it rose to 9.8%. It didn't surprise any conservatives. We can not create jobs in an anti-business atmosphere. The federal government institutes laws, policies and regulations that makes it practically impossible to start small businesses and create new jobs or rehire laid off workers. This is so typical of a liberal democrat congress and White House. I.E. Johnson, Carter, Clinton and now, Obama. Read up on these Presidents. See what type of social and regulation programs they started. Republican President Richard Nixon started the EPA in December of 1970. That was such a mistake. It hasn't always been the democrats pushing big government, but some republicans have made many stupid and short-sighted policies. If the Bush Tax Cuts expire, this is what you can expect starting January 1, 2011.</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">10% tax bracket becomes 15% for the lowest wage earners</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">35% tax brackets becomes 40% for the highest wage earners</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A middle income family ($63K or more) will pay $1500 more</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A working married couple earning $300K will pay $4K more</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The marriage penalty will return</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The dividend tax will rise 39.6% from 15%</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Long term Capital gains tax will rise to 20% from 15%</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The estate tax will reset to 55%</span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Where the benefits go? Single parents earning $25K will receive $2,300. $400 more than last year.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is "text book" redistribution of wealth. Taking from the "haves" and giving to the "have nots". I am a very charitable person, however, the government is stepping way outside it's boundaries. I realize that it is the democrat's mantra to grow the federal government. The issue is, we don't need it, we don't want it and we can't afford it. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Needless to say, I don't trust the government. We find out this week the fed bailed out many large corporations like General Electric with taxpayer money. Remember the song, "Behind closed doors"? That should be the Obama administration's theme song. If the Bush tax cuts expire and the threat of Obamacare, the EPA instituting the carbon dioxide standards, the ban on oil drilling and the mounting deficit are components which retard economic growth and small business expansion. Stopping this onslaught of hinderances, only then, we will see the country emerge from this recession. Yes, I said recession. Call your representatives and voice your opinions.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>'Constitutional Conservatism' is Not Negative, Radical, or Vague</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By ADAM J. WHITE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> In a short essay, New York Times editorialist Lincoln Caplan considers the increasingly popular conservative rallying cry, "constitutional conservatism." Caplan unsurprisingly tries to characterize the term as purely negative: "The phrase is used mainly in opposition," a response to perceived "danger" posed by liberal "solutions." Caplan tries to define the term as radical ("the phrase is connected to a radical vision") while simultaneously suggesting that the term hardly has a meaning at all ("the statement is a vague, highly selective catchall"). And ironically, he urges his readers not to "dismiss this increasingly used rallying cry," even while his own analysis turns the term into a straw man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In fact, the term "constitutional conservative" need not be deemed negative, radical, or vague. Rather than starting, as Caplan does, with John Boehner, Sarah Palin, and "Tea Party members," Caplan should have started with the Hoover Institution's Peter Berkowitz, who may well have sparked the term’s modern emergence nearly two years ago in a Wall Street Journal essay, which he subsequently expanded into a Policy Review essay, appropriately titled, "Constitutional Conservatism."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Berkowitz – who one could not easily define as negative, radical, or vague – laid out constitutional conservatism not merely in terms of "liberty" but also "moderation." He urged conservatives to focus not merely on limited government but also on energetic government, invoking George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism no less than Goldwater's libertarianism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And far from embracing right-wing radicalism, Berkowitz urged conservatives not to pursue "greater purity in conservative ranks" in either social conservative or libertarian terms. Citing public opinion polls, he urged that "down that path lies disaster."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Regardless of whether Berkowitz's moderate vision is shared by many or most "movement" conservatives, the fact remains that his vision of "constitutional conservatism" is a far cry from the radical, reactionary meaning assigned to the term by Caplan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Question:</strong> What is the difference between what Randall Duke Cunningham was convicted of and what Charles Rangel committed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sophisticated liberals have found humor in Oklahoma's recent ban on Sharia law. Along with humor, some have found offense in the bill. U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange granted a temporary restraining order blocking the bill. Critics, such as the culturally aware Clarence Page, say that the OK measure is "a solution in search of a problem." Sharia law is not a threat. Page's evidence: There are only 15,000 Muslims in Oklahoma. It doesn't get much more convincing than that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The deep thinkers at OpenLeft.com are equally informed: As Paul Rosenberg emphatically says, "there is zero evidence of sharia law having any influence on American law." Rosenberg is factually wrong. On the crucial factual matter of whether Sharia has been applied in our courts, he is unaware of what has occurred. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sharia law has been applied in U.S. courts. There are at least seventeen instances of Sharia law being applied in eleven states, as Daniel Pipes has noted. Most notably, a NJ court held that a man did not commit rape because according to his belief in Sharia law, a man cannot rape his wife, since the wife serves him. So Sharia law was applied to the mental state element of the crime of rape. An American court actually adopted this barbaric reasoning:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">[The defendant] was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The resulting ruling was that a man was held not responsible for rape, where he would have been convicted without Sharia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's no comfort to say that a court of appeals overturned the NJ ruling. Judges are open to these arguments, and that is the beginning of Sharia victory if it is not stopped. Liberal judges will become, in their social circles, standard-bearers of enlightenment and cultural sensitivity for embracing the diversity of Sharia law. That is all the incentive they need to continue to use foreign standards to decide what our rights will be. Look no farther than Justice Ginsburg's incredible willingness to latch on to foreign precedents that confirm her preconceived policy preferences. If there is one multicultural lemming in a robe willing to betray our freedoms, that's one too many -- and we can be sure that there are many more who want to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Every day, the news is full of examples of just how far Muslims will push. Take the infamous hijab at the Connecticut roller rink. A Muslim woman named Marisol Rodriguez-Colon -- soak in that cultural enrichment -- was asked to remove her medieval hood at a skating rink. The rink had a policy of no headgear because hats and scarves could cause injury on the floor. She claims that she needed to wear her hijab for "religious reasons." The "religious reasons" argument is the tip of the iceberg. If Muslims get to impose their practices and norms for "religious reasons," then they will reshape Western societies in their own medieval image. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Consider what else Muslims could demand at a roller rink for "religious reasons": For "religious reasons," males and females are to be separated from each other in public much of the time. For religious reasons, there must be no modern music to offend traditional ears. For religious reasons, there should be no pork products at snack bars. For religious reasons, homosexual skaters should be killed in one of many colorful ways -- a belief being taught to British Muslims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If Marisol Rodriguez-Colon can force the roller rink to change its policy on headgear based on religious reasons, then why can't she change every other policy inconsistent with her creed? There is no way to say that all they want to do is change policy on headgear. There is no limit to what Muslims would force non-Muslims to do for "religious reasons." They want more; the radical leaders will demand the most, and they will take as much as they can get. Those two propositions are obvious. Don't be fooled by cringing sensitivity mantras about how moderates don't want to impose their views. Moderates can't stop multicultural appeasement judges from ruling in favor of radicals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If radicals take as much as they can get, then headgear is one step on the path towards Sharia. There is nothing far-fetched about that prediction. It is the logical consequence of Muslim supremacy combined with Western cowardice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of course, this does not mean that each person who wants to wear their medieval headgear in public supports Sharia. What it means is that the headgear is the first step towards institutional acceptance and legal imposition of Sharia law. The same aggressive refusal to assimilate will carry out in other spheres of life. It will not be satisfied by wearing headgear. In fact, if the Muslim supremacists get their way with headgear, that will be a green light to them to make more demands -- demands that are more invasive, requiring even more fundamental changes to our society. That which gets rewarded gets repeated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Most of us thought that we left the dark ages behind us, but a retrograde impulse is growing. We are far from the imposition of Sharia law, but not far enough. The habit of a liberty-loving people is to guard against any step, no matter how small, towards injustice. The first step toward injustice will guarantee a second step, and the zealots will take that step if they aren't stopped. The first step is never an accident or an exception; it's part of an established plan played out many times around the world. England is learning this tragic lesson as Sharia law makes women second-class citizens in divorce and child custody matters, according to a Guardian newspaper column. The only thing stopping Sharia will be the people willing to guard our liberty and culture. Things are best protected when they are jealously guarded. That is something that our founders knew very well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Proactive defense of liberty and prevention of injustice are the reasons why Tennessee and Louisiana have already passed similar measures to Oklahoma's. At least twelve other states are considering such measures. Such policy is rank xenophobia, according to some, who contend that Islam is being unfairly singled out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sharia defenders should know that Islam is named specifically because Muslims single themselves out. Their leadership is uniquely comfortable forcing their religious practices and views onto other people. After a fitful two hundred years of protecting religious liberty in America, we have a sect seeking to impose its views in a way we haven't seen in a very long time. We should commend those who resist that imposition in advance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">THE President is to have power, "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Though this provision has been assailed, on different grounds, with no small degree of vehemence, I scruple not to declare my firm persuasion, that it is one of the best digested and most unexceptionable parts of the plan. One ground of objection is the trite topic of the intermixture of powers; some contending that the President ought alone to possess the power of making treaties; others, that it ought to have been exclusively deposited in the Senate. Another source of objection is derived from the small number of persons by whom a treaty may be made. Of those who espouse this objection, a part are of opinion that the House of Representatives ought to have been associated in the business, while another part seem to think that nothing more was necessary than to have substituted two thirds of ALL the members of the Senate, to two thirds of the members PRESENT. As I flatter myself the observations made in a preceding number upon this part of the plan must have sufficed to place it, to a discerning eye, in a very favorable light, I shall here content myself with offering only some supplementary remarks, principally with a view to the objections which have been just stated.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With regard to the intermixture of powers, I shall rely upon the explanations already given in other places, of the true sense of the rule upon which that objection is founded; and shall take it for granted, as an inference from them, that the union of the Executive with the Senate, in the article of treaties, is no infringement of that rule. I venture to add, that the particular nature of the power of making treaties indicates a peculiar propriety in that union. Though several writers on the subject of government place that power in the class of executive authorities, yet this is evidently an arbitrary disposition; for if we attend carefully to its operation, it will be found to partake more of the legislative than of the executive character, though it does not seem strictly to fall within the definition of either of them. The essence of the legislative authority is to enact laws, or, in other words, to prescribe rules for the regulation of the society; while the execution of the laws, and the employment of the common strength, either for this purpose or for the common defense, seem to comprise all the functions of the executive magistrate. The power of making treaties is, plainly, neither the one nor the other. It relates neither to the execution of the subsisting laws, nor to the enaction of new ones; and still less to an exertion of the common strength. Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations, which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. The power in question seems therefore to form a distinct department, and to belong, properly, neither to the legislative nor to the executive. The qualities elsewhere detailed as indispensable in the management of foreign negotiations, point out the Executive as the most fit agent in those transactions; while the vast importance of the trust, and the operation of treaties as laws, plead strongly for the participation of the whole or a portion of the legislative body in the office of making them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To have intrusted the power of making treaties to the Senate alone, would have been to relinquish the benefits of the constitutional agency of the President in the conduct of foreign negotiations. It is true that the Senate would, in that case, have the option of employing him in this capacity, but they would also have the option of letting it alone, and pique or cabal might induce the latter rather than the former. Besides this, the ministerial servant of the Senate could not be expected to enjoy the confidence and respect of foreign powers in the same degree with the constitutional representatives of the nation, and, of course, would not be able to act with an equal degree of weight or efficacy. While the Union would, from this cause, lose a considerable advantage in the management of its external concerns, the people would lose the additional security which would result from the co-operation of the Executive. Though it would be imprudent to confide in him solely so important a trust, yet it cannot be doubted that his participation would materially add to the safety of the society. It must indeed be clear to a demonstration that the joint possession of the power in question, by the President and Senate, would afford a greater prospect of security, than the separate possession of it by either of them. And whoever has maturely weighed the circumstances which must concur in the appointment of a President, will be satisfied that the office will always bid fair to be filled by men of such characters as to render their concurrence in the formation of treaties peculiarly desirable, as well on the score of wisdom, as on that of integrity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/">http://www.weeklystandard.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Adam J. White</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452873694084701422.post-45080030531038425872010-11-04T18:12:00.007-04:002010-11-04T18:20:49.118-04:00They just don't get it<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volume 194</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>t is two days after the "shellacking." Two Senate races still are not decided. The Republicans picked up six Senate seats (to date) and sixty three House seats. The Republicans also picked up a majority of Gubernatorial seats, including Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio. Obama won these states hands down. This will make it difficult for his re-election campaign in 2012, if he runs. Nancy Pelosi, House speaker for now, has been AWOL since Tuesday night. She did do an interview with her friend, ABC's Diane Sawyer. You have to hand it to Nancy, she stayed positive up until the Libship went under. Many old time democrat incumbents lost their jobs. Russ Feingold got the boot! If the President doesn't get the message that the American people repudiated his agenda, no one will. However, listening to his speech yesterday, he doesn't get it. He never really grasped the situation, and I'm not talking about Jersey Shore. He keeps referring to Bush's fault for the near depression he saved us from. He forgot to mention that it costs us 1.7 trillion, if not more. We've got over 5 trillion in new debt. Healthcare was a huge success, the American people love it! Bailouts and Cash for Clunkers were another huge publicity stunts for the White House. And he wonders why they took a beating? The one thing I noticed in his voice, (I was listening on the radio) he was still arrogant and smug. I mean, he dined on a colossal portion of "Humble Pie." He is single handily responsible for reigniting the conservative movement times ten. The irony is, the conservative movement is growing by the day and will not slow down. We will be watching what the new Congress is doing and we will grade them accordingly. Yes, that's right, the new Republican House of Representatives are on probation. They one the majority because of the liberal Congress and administration, not because we are happy with the Republicans. I am a registered Republican, however, I don't consider myself a Republican, I consider myself a Constitutional conservative. If they do not follow the laws of the Constitution, they will be gone just like the Democrats. It is very possible, the Tea Party could be more important and viable than the Republicans! Only time will tell. The new Republican Senators are also on notice. Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey and Rand Paul are committed to our cause, or so they say. Let's get back to President Obama, will he change in any way? I doubt he will change. He has a huge chip on his shoulder concerning America. His ideology and radical persuasions are guiding his agenda. Nuff said? I truly believe he has socialistic tendencies and expansive Government is his idea and passion. We are also dealing with many democrat congress men and women who are members of the Socialist's Party of America. That is what we have to deal with. With the midterm setback settling in, Obama might follow Clinton's lead and turn to foreign policy like Bubba did after the 1994 butt kicking by the Republicans. Obama leaves on Friday to sail off on a extended Indonesia and Far east apology tour. He is leaving town to let the midterm damage fade away. I am in amazement that the good state of Nevada reelected Harry Reid. You get what you deserve, I guess. The same with California, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown? What the heck were you thinking. California will need a bailout. I don't want my tax dollars going to a enormous Government entitlement state. Let them handle their own problems. Meg Whitman run a large business with success, Jerry Brown has been a politician his whole life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is when the hard work starts. Will we have gridlock, or will we have a congress that somewhat works together. The conservatives will not back down on repealing or defunding Obamacare. Cap and Trade is dead. Immigration reform is dead. The Bush tax cuts desperately need to be extended for at least two years. John Boehner, speaker of the House elect will have his hands full attempting to bring together many different ideologies in the Republican side of the House. In closing, I would like to personally thank and congratulate the American people for putting a stop to Obama and his radical agenda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Obama appeals for "Common Ground" after Democrats lose House</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana;">By Fred Barnes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama, reflecting on his party's historic losses in Congress, appealed Wednesday for both sides of the aisle to find "common ground" while continuing to stand by the policies that were used to hammer his party's candidates in the midterm election. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The president walked a tightrope as he sought to explain the results of the election as well as chart a new legislative path in a congressional landscape far more hostile to his agenda. Though his policies were used against Democrats in races across the country, Obama described his decisions to date as "tough" but "right." Yet he also said he must take "direct responsibility" for the frustration over the economy and pledged to do more to reach "consensus" with Republicans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"No party has a monopoly on wisdom," the president said, as he faced tough questions from the White House press corps. "I want to engage both Democrats and Republicans. ... I do believe there is hope for civility. I do believe there's hope for progress." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The news conference in Washington gave Obama his first opportunity to explain what his approach will be to a split Congress, with Republicans decisively in charge of the House and cutting deep into the Democrats' majority in the Senate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 Most Overpriced Products You Should Avoid Woman Sells Obama's 'Things Will Get Better' Letter to Pay for House: New York Post Pelosi’s Political Future Clouded by Historic Losses for Dems Mom in Spain Happy That Her 10-Year-Old Gave Birth Republicans Capture House in Historic Wave, Claim 'Mandate' to Shrink Government Pressed for specifics, Obama suggested he'd be open to joining Republicans in calling for a moratorium on earmarks and taking a second look at a controversial provision in the health care law that requires businesses to file 1099 tax forms for large purchases. He said, though, he wants to hear "affirmative" proposals from the GOP on how to fix the economy, claiming tax cuts alone will not do the trick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Republican leaders, in a series of speeches since Tuesday night's victories, have called on Obama to move toward the center. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, calling the election a "referendum" on Obama's policies, pointedly said Wednesday that the Democrats can either "work with us" or face another "change" election in 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">House Republican Leader John Boehner, expected to succeed Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House, said his party must "follow the will of the American people." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The American people spoke, and I think this is pretty clear that the Obama-Pelosi agenda is being rejected by the American people," he said. "They want the president to change course."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obama on Wednesday directly attributed GOP gains to frustration over the economy, declining to sign on to claims that it was a referendum on his decisions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Some election nights are more fun than others. Some are exhilarating. Some are humbling," Obama said. "Yesterday's vote confirmed what I've heard from folks all across America. People are frustrated, they're deeply frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Republicans are projected to pick up about 65 seats in the House of Representatives, surpassing the gains they made in the 1994 election. They will not take the majority in the Senate but so far have snatched six seats away from Democrats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Noting that the dust is still settling after Election Day, President Obama said that it is “critically important” over the coming months to create “a better working relationship” between the White House and Congressional leadership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the aftermath of Tuesday's election, which flipped control of the House of Representatives over to the Republicans, President Obama announced that he has invited John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi to the White House for bipartisan meetings in the first week of the lame duck session, on Thursday, November 18th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This is going to be a meeting in which I want us to talk substantively about how we can move the American people's agenda forward,” Obama said from the Cabinet Room of the White House this morning, “It's not just going to be a photo-op. Hopefully it may spill over into dinner.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I think it's clear that the voters sent a message, which is they want us to focus on the economy and jobs, and moving this country forward,” he said with his Cabinet around him. “They're concerned about making sure that taxpayer money is not wasted. And they want a change of tone here in Washington, where the two parties are coming together and focusing on the people's business as opposed to scoring political points.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We’ve got a lot of work to do. People are still catching their breath from the election. The dust is still settling. But the one thing I'm absolutely certain of is that the American people don't want us just standing still, and they don't want us engaged in gridlock. They want us to do the people's business, partly because they understand that the world is not standing still.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A government monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market. Quantitative easing increases the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Central banks tend to use quantitative easing when interest rates have already been lowered to near 0% levels and have failed to produce the desired effect. The major risk of quantitative easing is that although more money is floating around, there is still a fixed amount of goods for sale. This will eventually lead to higher prices or inflation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE President of the United States is to be "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States WHEN CALLED INTO THE ACTUAL SERVICE of the United States." The propriety of this provision is so evident in itself, and it is, at the same time, so consonant to the precedents of the State constitutions in general, that little need be said to explain or enforce it. Even those of them which have, in other respects, coupled the chief magistrate with a council, have for the most part concentrated the military authority in him alone. Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The President may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective officers." This I consider as a mere redundancy in the plan, as the right for which it provides would result of itself from the office.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He is also to be authorized to grant "reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, EXCEPT IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT." Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel. As the sense of responsibility is always strongest, in proportion as it is undivided, it may be inferred that a single man would be most ready to attend to the force of those motives which might plead for a mitigation of the rigor of the law, and least apt to yield to considerations which were calculated to shelter a fit object of its vengeance. The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat, would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; the dread of being accused of weakness or connivance, would beget equal circumspection, though of a different kind. On the other hand, as men generally derive confidence from their numbers, they might often encourage each other in an act of obduracy, and might be less sensible to the apprehension of suspicion or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency. On these accounts, one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy of government, than a body of men.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The expediency of vesting the power of pardoning in the President has, if I mistake not, been only contested in relation to the crime of treason. This, it has been urged, ought to have depended upon the assent of one, or both, of the branches of the legislative body. I shall not deny that there are strong reasons to be assigned for requiring in this particular the concurrence of that body, or of a part of it. As treason is a crime levelled at the immediate being of the society, when the laws have once ascertained the guilt of the offender, there seems a fitness in referring the expediency of an act of mercy towards him to the judgment of the legislature. And this ought the rather to be the case, as the supposition of the connivance of the Chief Magistrate ought not to be entirely excluded. But there are also strong objections to such a plan. It is not to be doubted, that a single man of prudence and good sense is better fitted, in delicate conjunctures, to balance the motives which may plead for and against the remission of the punishment, than any numerous body whatever. It deserves particular attention, that treason will often be connected with seditions which embrace a large proportion of the community; as lately happened in Massachusetts. In every such case, we might expect to see the representation of the people tainted with the same spirit which had given birth to the offense. And when parties were pretty equally matched, the secret sympathy of the friends and favorers of the condemned person, availing itself of the good-nature and weakness of others, might frequently bestow impunity where the terror of an example was necessary. On the other hand, when the sedition had proceeded from causes which had inflamed the resentments of the major party, they might often be found obstinate and inexorable, when policy demanded a conduct of forbearance and clemency. But the principal argument for reposing the power of pardoning in this case to the Chief Magistrate is this: in seasons of insurrection or rebellion, there are often critical moments, when a welltimed offer of pardon to the insurgents or rebels may restore the tranquillity of the commonwealth; and which, if suffered to pass unimproved, it may never be possible afterwards to recall. The dilatory process of convening the legislature, or one of its branches, for the purpose of obtaining its sanction to the measure, would frequently be the occasion of letting slip the golden opportunity. The loss of a week, a day, an hour, may sometimes be fatal. If it should be observed, that a discretionary power, with a view to such contingencies, might be occasionally conferred upon the President, it may be answered in the first place, that it is questionable, whether, in a limited Constitution, that power could be delegated by law; and in the second place, that it would generally be impolitic beforehand to take any step which might hold out the prospect of impunity. A proceeding of this kind, out of the usual course, would be likely to be construed into an argument of timidity or of weakness, and would have a tendency to embolden guilt.</span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452873694084701422.post-44851362386109743812010-11-01T20:37:00.003-04:002010-11-01T20:59:58.374-04:00Tidal Wave predicted Tuesday, Democrats find higher ground!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volume 193</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I must say that I am enjoying watching the democrats/liberals go into deep panic mode. All of them have gone off the deep end. I can see the democrats this week, sitting with their psychiatrist, trying to get a grasp on where it all went wrong? I can answer that, they became drunk with power and forgot who they work for. Now, we come to the day of reckoning. The most recent polls are not kind to the left. Voter fraud withstanding, I believe it will be a huge day for the republican party. I don't feel as confident to take a majority stake in the Senate. I think Patty Murray will win over Dino Rossi in Washington state. Colorado is up for grabs and the dems are panicking. Buck is 4 points over Bennett, Toomey is over Sestak, Angle is 4 points over Reid. Manchin is over Raese in West Virginia, Blumenthal is 9 points over McMahon in Conecticut. Life is good. There are so many races that are in play, where they shouldn't be. Obama, his sycophants and the democratic congress have squandered their super majority and alienated the American people. James Clyburn, D-Sc, and Evan Bayh, D-IN, both say the democrats could very well end up in a "bloodbath." I find it amazing the liberal pundits and state run media attempting to minimize the impact by calling the polls closer than they really are. Charlie Cook and Scott Rasmussen are calling races closer by the day. Fiorina is pulling closer to Boxer and Bialat is moving closer to Barney Frank (in the house race.) Rasmussen's Generic Ballot has the republicans at 51% and the democrats at 39%. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WASHINGTON — As if this election season weren't already tense enough, fears about voter fraud — and some of the steps that are being taken to combat it — have created more worries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Legal war rooms," roving teams of lawyers, hot lines and poll challengers are all part of the strategy that Democrats and Republicans will employ Tuesday to handle suspected fraud or to help voters whose right to vote is questioned. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The issue is also on the Justice Department's radar. It will post federal monitors at selected polling places around the country, and prosecutors, civil rights attorneys and the FBI will be tasked with handling election-related complaints that day. A special toll-free number — 1-800-253-3931 — will be available for complaints about ballot access.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ed Martin, a Republican congressional hopeful in St. Louis, intends to deploy a "Count Every Vote Unit" to look for possible voter fraud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, who's running for the Senate in Illinois, has a "voter integrity program" in place for Election Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tea party groups plan to use "surveillance squads" at polling places to record possible voting misbehavior. Some tea party groups already have questioned voter registration records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"This is happening to a degree we haven't seen in years," said Wendy Weiser, a voting rights expert at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. "The concern with ballot security operations is not with their intent. They can be highly confrontational. That can cross the line into intimidation and voter suppression."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Democrats claim that the fears about fraud are overblown and are being stoked by Republicans and conservatives to scare off voters, particularly minorities, many of whom tend to vote Democratic. In the Illinois U.S. Senate race, for instance, Kirk can be heard on a taped conference call saying where his "voter integrity program" would be sent, and it was largely African-American neighborhoods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Republicans deny that they are raising false alarms about voter fraud and say that their concerns are legitimate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We have had some problem in the past with folks voting that should not have happened," said Lloyd Smith, the executive director of the Missouri Republican Party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among those was the famous case in 2000 of Ritzy Meckler — a dog — listed on the St. Louis voter registration rolls. Smith likened the party's preparations this year to "a speed limit on a highway. It's not there to write you a ticket, but to make sure everyone plays by the rules."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During early voting In Texas, there were reports of poll watchers "hovering" over voters and "getting in their face," according to an account in the Houston Chronicle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Minnesota, a group composed of members of a conservative party and the tea party has offered a bounty of up to $500 for anyone who turns in someone who's successfully prosecuted for voter fraud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We've had everything from tornadoes and ice storms to other types of problems, such as voting challenges and polling place conduct," said Laura Egerdal, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Secretary of State's Office. "We hope we don't have to deal with any of those, but we're making plans."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>How's That Obama Base-Rousing Strategy Working Out?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alert reader F. e-mails from the "great unwashed middle of the country": </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[S]ince the president hit the trail to gin-up the base, the house has been moving ever more into the red column on RCP. A while back, I thought the blues were going to hang on by making every house race local—not an unreasonable strategy. However, Obama has been out every day reminding those of us in the middle how far to the left he is from where he ran in 2008. He's firming up the wrong base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its amazing that the Blues don't understand that all BHO's comments, particularly the punish your enemies meme, are on FOX, talk radio and the Internet. Your trash talk goes right into the other guy's locker room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It sure seems like there is something to this theory. Name a race where Obama's intervention has saved the day for a Democrat ... Barbara Boxer seems like the most likely savee. She has welcomed Obama's help. But even her race is far from a done deal (see latest Rasmussen poll). I'd take Nate Silver's odds on Fiorina (93–7) ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.S.: Note that the "locker room" analogy is slightly misleading. It's not just that rousing the Dem base also rouses the GOP base (which can hardly be roused more than it already is anyway). It's that rousing the Dem base alienates the middle. Were Dems always faced with that base-vs.-middle tradeoff? On issues like immigration reform, it seems like they are now. (Welfare was a base-vs.-middle issue, of course. The middle hated welfare. But Dems could always soft-pedal and hide their cash-dispensing programs in the fine print while pretending that they were requiring work—and then relying on other issues to mobilize the base. On immigration, it seems as if the only way to rouse the Dems' Latino base, Obama-style, is to shout your support for an immigration amnesty from the rooftops, where the middle can also hear it.) ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.P.S.: In a sense, it's quite smart of the White House to make the relatively obscure Fifth District of Virginia the Helmand Province of this election—the sudden recipient of a massive surge of presidential and party attention. If embattled Democrat Tom Perriello can pull out a win, the White House can say, "See, the base-pleasing strategy can work. If only we had enough money! And Obama still has the magic. If only we could clone 535 of him." If Perriello loses they can say, "It's only one congressional district in a red state" and blame local factors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you also have to wonder if the desperate attempt to demonstrate at least one contest where base-pleasing worked doesn't also reflect the ideological preference of the White House. If you can win by pleasing the base, of course, then it's easier to pursue base-pleasing policies. If base-pleasing flops ignominiously across the board, on the other hand, it's ... make way for neoliberals. 5:00 p.m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Chaiting: Relying on an academia's model, The New Republic's Jonathan Chait argues that structural factors should yield a Republican gain of 45 House seats. Fair enough. But that implies we can blame Obama for any GOP gains over that limit, right? Before readers can reach that obvious conclusion, Chait adds five more seats to his "baseline" on seemingly arbitrary grounds.* Is their real purpose to give him a cushion against having to write a Nov. 3 column he probably doesn't want to write? ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Chait suggests the five-seat add-on is justified because President Obama "rode a wave in 2008 that was unusually dependent on sporadic voters like the young and minorities, who tend not to turn out during midterm elections." But of course this is a factor the academic model he relies on has presumably already taken into account, since a) it's a model of midterm elections and b) one of the three "structural" elements in the equation is</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. The incumbent party's "exposure"—the more seats you hold, the deeper into hostile territory you're stretched, and the easier it is to lose seats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't Democrats stretch into hostile territory by appealing to sporadic voters like the young and minorities? The more plausible theory is that Chait just didn't like the number 45 because it makes it look like the president is blowing it. Do not let this man balance your budget! ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Polls we can live by:</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">31% Strongly approve of President's job approval</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">42% Strongly disapprove</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">50% Somewhat approve</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">49% Somewhat disapprove</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">29% Of Americans tied to the Tea Party</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">58% Favor repeal of Healthcare law</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Generic Ballot:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">GOP 55%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Democrat 40%</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE third ingredient towards constituting the vigor of the executive authority, is an adequate provision for its support. It is evident that, without proper attention to this article, the separation of the executive from the legislative department would be merely nominal and nugatory. The legislature, with a discretionary power over the salary and emoluments of the Chief Magistrate, could render him as obsequious to their will as they might think proper to make him. They might, in most cases, either reduce him by famine, or tempt him by largesses, to surrender at discretion his judgment to their inclinations. These expressions, taken in all the latitude of the terms, would no doubt convey more than is intended. There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils; and in the main it will be found that a power over a man's support is a power over his will. If it were necessary to confirm so plain a truth by facts, examples would not be wanting, even in this country, of the intimidation or seduction of the Executive by the terrors or allurements of the pecuniary arrangements of the legislative body.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is not easy, therefore, to commend too highly the judicious attention which has been paid to this subject in the proposed Constitution. It is there provided that "The President of the United States shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation WHICH SHALL NEITHER BE INCREASED NOR DIMINISHED DURING THE PERIOD FOR WHICH HE SHALL HAVE BEEN ELECTED; and he SHALL NOT RECEIVE WITHIN THAT PERIOD ANY OTHER EMOLUMENT from the United States, or any of them." It is impossible to imagine any provision which would have been more eligible than this. The legislature, on the appointment of a President, is once for all to declare what shall be the compensation for his services during the time for which he shall have been elected. This done, they will have no power to alter it, either by increase or diminution, till a new period of service by a new election commences. They can neither weaken his fortitude by operating on his necessities, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice. Neither the Union, nor any of its members, will be at liberty to give, nor will he be at liberty to receive, any other emolument than that which may have been determined by the first act. He can, of course, have no pecuniary inducement to renounce or desert the independence intended for him by the Constitution.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The propensity of the legislative department to intrude upon the rights, and to absorb the powers, of the other departments, has been already suggested and repeated; the insufficiency of a mere parchment delineation of the boundaries of each, has also been remarked upon; and the necessity of furnishing each with constitutional arms for its own defense, has been inferred and proved. From these clear and indubitable principles results the propriety of a negative, either absolute or qualified, in the Executive, upon the acts of the legislative branches. Without the one or the other, the former would be absolutely unable to defend himself against the depredations of the latter. He might gradually be stripped of his authorities by successive resolutions, or annihilated by a single vote. And in the one mode or the other, the legislative and executive powers might speedily come to be blended in the same hands. If even no propensity had ever discovered itself in the legislative body to invade the rights of the Executive, the rules of just reasoning and theoretic propriety would of themselves teach us, that the one ought not to be left to the mercy of the other, but ought to possess a constitutional and effectual power of self defense.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But this observation, when examined, will appear rather specious than solid. The propriety of the thing does not turn upon the supposition of superior wisdom or virtue in the Executive, but upon the supposition that the legislature will not be infallible; that the love of power may sometimes betray it into a disposition to encroach upon the rights of other members of the government; that a spirit of faction may sometimes pervert its deliberations; that impressions of the moment may sometimes hurry it into measures which itself, on maturer reflection, would condemn. The primary inducement to conferring the power in question upon the Executive is, to enable him to defend himself; the secondary one is to increase the chances in favor of the community against the passing of bad laws, through haste, inadvertence, or design. The oftener the measure is brought under examination, the greater the diversity in the situations of those who are to examine it, the less must be the danger of those errors which flow from want of due deliberation, or of those missteps which proceed from the contagion of some common passion or interest. It is far less probable, that culpable views of any kind should infect all the parts of the government at the same moment and in relation to the same object, than that they should by turns govern and mislead every one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the convention have pursued a mean in this business, which will both facilitate the exercise of the power vested in this respect in the executive magistrate, and make its efficacy to depend on the sense of a considerable part of the legislative body. Instead of an absolute negative, it is proposed to give the Executive the qualified negative already described. This is a power which would be much more readily exercised than the other. A man who might be afraid to defeat a law by his single VETO, might not scruple to return it for reconsideration; subject to being finally rejected only in the event of more than one third of each house concurring in the sufficiency of his objections. He would be encouraged by the reflection, that if his opposition should prevail, it would embark in it a very respectable proportion of the legislative body, whose influence would be united with his in supporting the propriety of his conduct in the public opinion. A direct and categorical negative has something in the appearance of it more harsh, and more apt to irritate, than the mere suggestion of argumentative objections to be approved or disapproved by those to whom they are addressed. In proportion as it would be less apt to offend, it would be more apt to be exercised; and for this very reason, it may in practice be found more effectual. It is to be hoped that it will not often happen that improper views will govern so large a proportion as two thirds of both branches of the legislature at the same time; and this, too, in spite of the counterposing weight of the Executive. It is at any rate far less probable that this should be the case, than that such views should taint the resolutions and conduct of a bare majority. A power of this nature in the Executive, will often have a silent and unperceived, though forcible, operation. When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which they cannot control, they will often be restrained by the bare apprehension of opposition, from doing what they would with eagerness rush into, if no such external impediments were to be feared.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This qualified negative, as has been elsewhere remarked, is in this State vested in a council, consisting of the governor, with the chancellor and judges of the Supreme Court, or any two of them. It has been freely employed upon a variety of occasions, and frequently with success. And its utility has become so apparent, that persons who, in compiling the Constitution, were violent opposers of it, have from experience become its declared admirers. [1]</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have in another place remarked, that the convention, in the formation of this part of their plan, had departed from the model of the constitution of this State, in favor of that of Massachusetts. Two strong reasons may be imagined for this preference. One is that the judges, who are to be the interpreters of the law, might receive an improper bias, from having given a previous opinion in their revisionary capacities; the other is that by being often associated with the Executive, they might be induced to embark too far in the political views of that magistrate, and thus a dangerous combination might by degrees be cemented between the executive and judiciary departments. It is impossible to keep the judges too distinct </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws. It is peculiarly dangerous to place them in a situation to be either corrupted or influenced by the Executive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Mr. Abraham Yates, a warm opponent of the plan of the convention is of this number.</span><br />
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