Obama, this election, you can run, but you can't hide,

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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. I will never apologize for my country.

AMAZING !!! He really HAS done something...TO AMERICA

An impressive list of accomplishments!

· First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, receive it, and then deny he was a foreigner later in his life.

· First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. (How is that even possible??)

· First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

· First President to violate the War Powers Act. ( Libya , the Sudan , the Congo and Central African Republic .)

· First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

· First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

· First President to require all Americans to purchase a product, many of them don't need or want, from a third party.

· First President to spend over a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

· First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his donors and supporters.

· First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat, instead of getting the illegal immigration problem addressed by all of the government .

· First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

· First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. (BP)

· First President to end America ’s ability to put a man in space.

· First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present, so he could stay on vacation.

· First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law he doesn't agree with, unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

· First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

· First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. (Boeing)

· First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN...., immigration lawsuits).

· First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

· First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

· First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

· First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90+ to date.

· First President to hide his past medical, educational and travel records.

· First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

· First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.

· 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.

· First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

· First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense, and to have that pet flown on government jet to be with the family on vacation.

· First President to repeat "the Holy Qur’an tells us", and that, "the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth".

· First President to take a 17 day vacation.

So how is this hope and change working out for you?

Harvard law student, Barack Hussein Obama hugging radical Professor Derrick Bell:

Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010 ...

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.

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 posted video of Obama lauding his work at a 1991 rally at Harvard.

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.

GALLUP: UNEMPLOYMENT HITS 9.1 PERCENT

• Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:06pm by  Becket Adams
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Gallup 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.

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“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,”Gallup’s chief economist Dennis Jacobe writes.

“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.

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.”

“This percentage is similar to the 10.1 percent in January, but is higher than the 9.6 percent of February 2011,” Jacobe writes.

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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.

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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 theregular caveats that go along with these type of surveys and their results)?

Jacobe explains [emphases added]:

In mid-February, Gallup reported that its U.S. unemployment rate had increased to 9.0 percent from 8.3 percent in mid-January. The mid-month reading normally provides a relatively good estimate of the government’s unadjusted unemployment rate for the month.

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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"I Have a dream"

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On April 4, 1968, a great man was assassinated. Martin Luther King, Jr; was standing on his hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee was murdered by James Earl Ray.  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.


MLK's I have a dream: (video)



MLK, Jr's "I have a dream" speech: (Text)
By MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Aug. 28, 1963

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.

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.

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.

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. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

I have a dream today.

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.

I have a dream today.

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.

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.

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."

MARTIN LUTHER KING’S NIECE SAYS HE WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED PRO-LIFE VALUES

• Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:50pm by  Billy Hallowell
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Dr. Alveda King

Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and the daughter of civil rights leader A.D. King (MLK’s brother) appeared on FOX News on Monday, where she discussed her uncle’s legendary civil rights work.

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.

In describing her uncle and the titles that many attempt to attach to him, she said:

“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.”

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.”

“How can the dream survive if we murder our children?,” she asked.

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A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

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