Something nice to say about the Obamas?

Yes, and it's not even an April Fool's joke. From Neal Boortz:

A GOOD DEED FROM THE OBAMAS

The Obama's have decided that now is not the time to take $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to re-do the White House. This allotment is offered to every incoming president to renovate, but the Obama's have decided that they are going to pay for any changes out of their own pockets. Give them credit for this one. PrezBO hasn't even redecorated the Oval Office used by the hated George Bush.

Of course there are plenty of other things that one could complain about. Some are mentioned as links in Neal's Reading Assignments today, while other links there are just fun or interesting things. See for yourself:

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The Senate has voted to use revenues from cap-and-trade auctions to pay for higher gas and electricity prices .. I assume this will be limited to "poor" people.

Rick Wagoner got the boot from Obama in order to "start a new vision" .. why didn't the UAW's Ron Gettelfinger get "a new start" as well?

More than half of Americans do not support Obama's plan to bail out troubled banks.

Lawmakers in Washington want to end the travel ban to Cuba. This one won't go down without a fight.

Did you really think that every single penny of this economic stimulus package was actually going to be used to stimulate the economy and not wasted on pork projects?

Here are some more details of Obama Motor's government guarantee. Speaking of which, someone has created a mock phone call to the White House's auto warrantee department.

What are politicians having the taxpayers cough up the cash for their car payments? Needless to say, they aren't worried about your wallets.

A science advisor to Hillary Clinton says that there are too many people living on our planet.

Mark Steyn quickly highlights what happens when people slip from government "investing" to government control.

Here's an article from Forbes magazine explaining how our government has gone wild.

Just what we need .. air pollution monitors around our government schools. It's the kid's minds that are being polluted, not their lungs.

Residents in Washington are having to smuggle dishwashing detergent from Idaho because of local laws which ban detergents that actually work .. because of their effect on the environment.

Did you know that the taxpayers are funding government education experiments like teaching 4th and 5th graders in Baltimore City about a career in transportation technology?

What happens when a school in Canada installs an illegal cellphone jammer?

A redneck DUI.

I could wish that some of these were an April Fools joke!
     

Does Obama have fleas?

Not literally, of course. I'm thinking of the saying, "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas". Both the Obamas have had associations with some pretty flea-infested dogs. And now the fleas are coming back to bite them. Consider this ad Obama is fighting to have suppressed:


URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY

It's carefully worded, and I don't see that it says anything that isn't true. He claims it does. Yet his campaign's official response to it doesn't specifically refute anything it says. Is that because it can't?

This reminds me of John Kerry and the Swiftboaters. Kerry's campaign refused to talk about what the Swiftboaters said, and the MSM went along with that. I was appalled at how the Media simply refused to discuss the matter. If the accusations were not true, they could have easily explained to us how and why, but they didn't even try. Why? Because they couldn't.

Now Obama is supposedly taking a more aggressive stance than Kerry did, but it seems he also can't refute what is undeniably true. Is the best he can do is to silence his opponents by whatever means possible? That's what fascist thugs do when they know they can't win arguments because the facts don't support them; they try to forcibly silence the critics.

Unfortunately it's a tactic that's being increasingly used by the Democrats in this country whenever they are confronted with facts, and it is one of the reasons I have lost all respect for the Democrat party generally. Sadly, it seems to be the best they are capable of.

The hard left associations of the Obama's are well established, no matter how much they would like to white-wash it now. This stuff ought to have been vetted much earlier on by the press, but it wasn't. Maynard at the Tammy Bruce blog has this post this morning regarding Michelle Obama's speech last night:

Michelle Obama

[...] The problem with the Obamas is, in a word, their long history of close association with hatemongers. These are not casual connections; they go to the core of what they've done with their lives so far. And now, on the very eve of the election, this offensive history is to be erased and replaced with a manufactured image that will appeal to mainstream (that is, the sane and decent portion of) America. And they expect you to buy into this nonsense.

Who are you going to believe? The pretty speeches, or your eyes and your brain?

Exactly. The problem isn't false accusations, it's the fact that people have eyes, and brains too. Michelle's speech was an emotional appeal, which in itself isn't wrong, but facts need to ALSO be considered, because emotions can deceive if they are not grounded in understanding of the facts. Speaking of facts, see the rest of the post for some of Michelle's interesting connections.

Pretty speeches don't change the facts. The whole of Obama's campaign seems to depend on pretty speeches. Something more ought to be required.

The Obamas can explain away their hard core leftist/terrorist connections any way they'd like to. They have every right to explain and counter criticism aimed at them. They have even had some good explanations for some of their controversies, thus far. But to try to silence people for pointing out facts that they can't deny, is contemptible.


Related links:

Obama Responds On Ayers

Fighting back against Obama’s thugs

Obama, Ayers and Dohrn - birds of a feather

Obama Needs to Explain His Ties to William Ayers
     

Obama's Pastor: “God damn America”

Obama’s pastor takes highly nuanced approach to racial divisiveness

Well that explains a lot about their attitudes. They can have any attitudes they like, but is it what we want for the American presidency?

You can read more about it here:

I’ve found a church!

Obama’s Pastor Puts Church In Hot Water-Now With More Blame America!
     

Michelle Obama: an ungrateful socialist?

Her advice to young people: "Don't Go Into Corporate America". Tammy Bruce looks at the Obama's own financial particulars, and finds Michelle's posturing seriously flawed:

Let's *Not* Make This Woman First Lady

[...] What can you say about such rank contemptuous hypocrisy? It is, as I mentioned regarding her "no respect for America" speech, not just the Obamas who think this way, it is part and parcel of the entire Democrat/Leftist mindset.

Indeed. The Democrat party these days seems to THRIVE on envy, resentment and a permanent victim hood mentality. No matter how much they have, it's never enough, no matter how much they get their way, it's not good enough. They constantly go on about what they are against, but they are seldom FOR anything, other than taking away earned income and liberty from others. The whole party is based on a dynamic of negativity that needs to be continually fed and maintained, and thus creates nothing positive.

Mrs Obama: America is “just downright mean”

[...] And that's not counting Husseins's salary of $160,000 as a Senator. Together they make nearly a half a million a year or $40,000 a month. Guess which figure is closer to my annual income.

No wonder Mrs Obama thinks America is mean. She's an ungrateful bitch and ungrateful people can never be happy no matter how much they have. [...]

Visit the links above for quotes by her, she sure likes to complain, and seems to have a decidedly negative view of America. I've never known a socialist who was grateful, in fact they all seem quite the opposite; ungrateful, envious and resentful. Is that what we need in the Whitehouse? I think we could do better.


Related Links:

Obama and FARC

Obama & Democrats want American weakness

About Obama: asking questions the MSM won't