Whether you agree with Richard Cohen on the topic of today's column (I do, but not necessarily for the reasons he gives), you have to agree with this observation on the nature of Obama.

Barack Obama is pretty much a perfect package -- smart, articulate, handsome, charming. The only thing he lacks is a bottom line: What, precisely, does he find unacceptable? It's hard to know. His political career has been so brief we don't yet know where he makes his stand -- this far and no further.

A pity that Cohen and the rest of the media didn't offer this observation during the 2008 campaign. It might just have alerted the American public to the fact that they were being asked to buy a pig in a poke. Instead, it was left to those of us on the GOP side of the aisle to offer such observations -- which were then immediately dismissed as partisan at best and racist at worst.

Unfortunately for America, we still are not quite sure what Obama's principles rally are and where he will make a stand for them -- an intolerable place for a nation like the United States to find itself.

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A major national organization has invited the president to speak. This organization was a major supporter during the presidential campaign. Look how they got jerked around.

The NAACP invites the president to speak to the group July 16, the last day of its six-day convention at the Hilton in New York.

The White House's response: Absolutely, he's coming.

Then the Secret Service comes and says, "No," the Hilton is not suitable.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says, "Why don't I give you Yankee Stadium?" It would be the president's biggest event since his inauguration.

A couple of days later comes the answer from someone in Obama's operation: We don't want to project that kind of image. We want something bigger than the Hilton, but not as big as Yankee Stadium.

The NAACP people have to bust their ass to come up with another place - and they do, finally, finding an armory in Harlem. There's no air conditioning, however, and we are talking New York in July here. The governor steps in and says he'll provide temporary air conditioning.

The White House then says, "OK, but we want to change the time - 2 p.m. for the president's speech is not acceptable anymore. We want 5 o'clock."

Unfortunately, the new White House demand conflicts with the black-tie dinner that the NAACP holds on the last day of the convention and would create a logistical nightmare.. Their message to the White House -- the speech is at 2:00, we hope he shows.

And to imagine that this is how the Obama Regime treats the president's supporters -- what do the rest of us have to expect?

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Just so you know -- Barack Obama is going to make sure that he and his family get the best of health care, even if you won't be allowed to do so.

President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face.
Obama on how to drive down health care costs while providing adequate coverage.

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News’ special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if itÂ’s not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldnÂ’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan heÂ’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.

On the other hand, YOU spouse, your kids, and your grandparents may not get that care under ObamaCare. So we'll still have the inequities in the health care system -- and a multi-trillion dollar bill to go with them.

Let's just call him what he is -- an elitist bastard who is more than willing to be generous with other people's money, while refusing to make the same sacrifices he demands of the rest of us. Seems to me this is a much more serious hypocrisy than any committed by Mark Sanford.

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Rarely have I come across so devastating a comment about a obsessive Trig Trutherism.

Rarely in human history has a gay man been that obsessed with a married womanÂ’s vagina.

Just a part of a great analysis of the fickle pundit by The New Ledger's Christopher Badeaux. It is certainly a must read.

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Democracy riots in Iran. Nuke-laden cargo ships in North Korea. War on Terror.

So what does Barry Hussein do? He stages a photo-op with the girls!

All of which leads me to offer a little hint of things to come.

Great Obama Quotes From History:

"It’s 3 a.m. The phone just rang. Michelle — do you know where the nearest 24-hour Dairy Queen is?'

"Hillary — could you pick up a couple of Peanut Buster Parfaits on your way over from Foggy Bottom? Kim Jong-il just launched a couple of nukes at Hawaii."

"Comrade Fidel, I can’t accept those Cuban cigars — Michelle doesn’t let me smoke anymore. Could you bring some Cuban frozen custard instead?"

"General, I'll let you know my decision on an appropriate military response once I finish my Blizzard."

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Besides trillions on an insurance plan that still won't cover 2/3 of uninsured Americans, there is another detail in the ObamaCare plan sponsored by Senator Teddy the Hutt (D-Dead mistress in his sunken Oldsmobile) that should lead every American to oppose it.

This legislation -- the Affordable Health Choices Act that's being drafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy's staff and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee -- will push Americans into stingy insurance plans with tight, HMO-style controls. It specifically exempts members of Congress (along with federal employees; the exemptions are in section 3116).

I call BULLSHIT! If this mandatory system isn't good enough for our elected representatives and the federal employees who subsist on our tax dollars, then it isn't good enough for the rest of the American people. Either require that all federal elected officials, their appointees, and other federal employees be subject to ObamaCare BEFORE the rest of the American public to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the new plan -- thereby boosting public confidence in it -- or don't pass it at all. After all, WE, THE PEOPLE are the sovereigns in this country, and those who are our servants should not get better than we do using our tax dollars while we are denied the same choices they have.

H/T Bookworm Room

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You know, now that it is the state of his birth rather than the state that Sarah Palin governs that is in the line of fire.

North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.

The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea's Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan's top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.

The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said.

While the newspaper speculated the Taepodong-2 could fly over Japan and toward Hawaii, it said the missile would not be able to hit Hawaii's main islands, which are about 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) from the Korean peninsula.

Now the missile's range is 500 miles short of reaching Hawaii -- but it isn't a stretch to see that this is part of a strategy of extending the NorK's ballistic missile range so that it could take out a large chunk of the US Pacific fleet. Will we maybe see some missile defense money allocated that way -- and perhaps a restoration of those funds for missile defense in Alaska that would protect much of the rest of the US mainland?

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More HopeNChange that looks an awful lot like what went before.

In a disturbing article in The Times on Wednesday, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau said that Congressional investigations suggest that the National Security Agency continues to routinely collect Americans’ telephone calls and e-mail messages — perhaps by the millions.

These sweeps seem unconnected to specific terrorism investigations, and the communications are entirely domestic. The law does not allow fishing trips through Americans’ communications and only permits the government to read e-mails or listen to phone calls in which one party is “reasonably believed” to be outside the United States.

During the Bush years, we heard the Left claim that this violated the Constitution.

We heard repeated calls for impeachment from the Left.

And a Democrat back-bencher named Barack Obama said that such things must end.

Well, he's had the power to end such spying for months -- and hasn't.

So where are the calls for impeachment from those who demanded that sanction against George W. Bush?

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With an executive order giving benefits to the unmarried same-sex partners of Federal employees -- but not to similarly situated opposite-sex partners.

President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, a White House official said.

Obama planned to announce his decision Wednesday in the Oval Office, the official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because Obama had not signed a presidential memorandum putting his plan into place.

The decision is a political nod to a reliably Democratic voting bloc that has become impatient with the White House in recent weeks.

Fairness? Equality? No, just a payoff to another Democrat voting bloc -- and one that he has broken every single promise to in his time in office -- even though it means violating the clear intent of the federal DOMA to accomplish it.

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Remember -- this is a corrupt Democrat who was embraced by his party after his crimes were exposed.

Opening statements are scheduled in the trial of a former Louisiana congressman charged with bribery after federal agents found $90,000 in cash in his freezer.

The case is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

William Jefferson is accused of soliciting bribes, racketeering, money laundering and other crimes. Jefferson represented parts of New Orleans until losing re-election last year.

Prosecutors say he received more than $500,000 and sought millions more for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.

Don't expect wall-to-wall coverage of this trial. After all, Jefferson is a Democrat, and we all know that they are as pure as the driven snow.

UPDATE: NewsBusters notes that nowhere does the article ever identify Jefferson as a Democrat. Isn't that an important bit of information?

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Now IÂ’ve got no use for idiots like Hal Turner, even when such folks are right on a particular issue. And while he is correct in opposing Connecticut efforts to force the Catholic Church to register as a lobbying organization for daring to oppose legislation that would have directly interfered with the authority of Catholic bishops over Catholic parishes. Such a move is clearly unconstitutional, and Turner is right to join with advocates of religious freedom and church-state separation in opposing both efforts. But he certainly strayed over the line with a part of his opposition, and it is appropriate for the state to act against him in this instance.

Internet radio host Hal Turner — accused of inciting Catholics to "take up arms" and singling out two Connecticut lawmakers and a state ethics official on a website — was taken into custody in New Jersey late Wednesday after state Capitol police in Connecticut obtained a warrant for his arrest.

Turner, who has been identified as a white supremacist and anti-Semite by several anti-racism groups, hosts an Internet radio program with an associated blog. On Tuesday, the blog included a post that promised to release the home addresses of state Rep. Michael Lawlor, state Sen. Andrew McDonald and Thomas Jones of the State Ethics Office.

"Mr. Turner's comments are above and beyond the threshold of free speech," Capitol Police Chief Michael J. Fallon said in an e-mail announcing the warrant. "He is inciting others through his website to commit acts of violence and has created fear and alarm. He should be held accountable for his conduct."

What, exactly, did he say to cross that line? He wrote the following “commentary” on the issue.

While filing a lawsuit is quaint and the "decent" way to handle things, we at TRN believe that being decent to a group of tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too soft.

Thankfully, the Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve tyranny: The Second Amendment.

TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take up arms and put down this tyranny by force. To that end, THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON "THE HAL TURNER SHOW" we will be releasing the home addresses of the Senator and Assemblyman who introduced Bill 1098 as well as the home address of Thomas K. Jones from the OSE.

After all, if they are so proud of what they're doing, they shouldn't mind if everyone knows where they live.

It is our intent to foment direct action against these individuals personally. These beastly government officials should be made an example of as a warning to others in government: Obey the Constitution or die.

If any state attorney, police department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this; I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down too.

The state pushed; it is about to get pushed back. Elected and other government officials sometimes need to be put in their place. They serve; they do not rule. They need to learn their place or be put there by force.

Now I’ll be honest – I don’t object to the disclosure of the home addresses of public officials – they are usually matters of public record, anyway. And while I regularly point out that the Second Amendment is in the Constitution to allow Americans to defend our rights against overreaching government, I make a point of NOT suggesting that any particular individual be made an example of when I do so. Recognizing the purpose of the amendment is one thing; suggesting that it be applied against particular individuals is something else entirely and constitutes a threat of violence. Hal Turner clearly went a bridge too far – and I fully support his prosecution.

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The headline is as follows.

Why, oh why, did they have to use this picture with the article? After all, it does look like he is doing the Viagra shuffle so he can play “hide the canolli” with his companion.

Of course, the real article is much less entertaining – just another Biden backtrack from a Biden gaffe.

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The Left is in an uproar that Manuel Miranda is one of those on the Right leading the charge against Sonia SotomayorÂ’s SCOTUS nomination. They have resurrected the scandal that cost him his old job as a Senate staffer.

ThereÂ’s a bit more to Manuel Miranda than that, however. Miranda, as longtime Congressional insiders will recall, was the GOP Senate staffer who was nailed in 2004 for hacking into the computers of Senate Dems and downloading thousands of documents relating to the strategies of Dem Senators on judicial nominations.

Miranda’s scheme — widely referred to as “Memogate” — was a big deal. A Senate probe found that many of the swiped files had been systematically downloaded “from folders belonging to Democratic staff,” with some leaked to friendly reporters. Miranda resigned, and a Washington Post editorial denounced his “political spying operation” that indicated “how low the nominations process has sunk.”

Now let’s be honest here – what Miranda did in this case was not hacking. Files were left on a publicly accessible server open to all staffers on the committee, and he accessed them. While one can certainly question the ethics of those actions (and I’d argue they were a mighty dark gray, ethically speaking), let’s not forget what information he uncovered – information that the Obama knee-pad brigade in the media are loathe to bring up – including evidence that the Democrats sought to keep Miguel Estrada from being confirmed as a judge because he was Hispanic. In other words, a Hispanic whistleblower who disclosed actual racism deployed against a well-qualified Hispanic judicial nominee is being attacked by the Left for having acted to disclose that unAmerican activity on the part of racist Senate Democrats

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After all, the right to petition the government is a fundamental one under the First Amendment. When you publish names and addresses of individuals who do so and encourage “uncomfortable talks” (read that harassment), then you are engaged in a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of those petitioners.

A group called WhoSigned.org says it will publicize the names of people signing petitions for Referendum 71, which seeks a public vote to overturn a new expansion of Washington's same-sex partnerships.

WhoSigned.org says it's partnering with the gay rights group KnowThyNeighbor.org to put the names online.

In a statement Monday, WhoSigned.org says it expects people who see the names online to contact the signers for what may be uncomfortable talks about gay rights.

This is rather reminiscent of the actions of Kluxers and other racists who opposed the exercise of constitutional rights by blacks and their supporters. What next – bombings and arson against petition signers if harsh words, intimidation, and economic coercion don’t work?

I’d encourage folks in Washington state (including my parents) to remember that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect one’s ability to exercise one’s other rights. Whoever decides to initiate those “uncomfortable talks” ought to be prepared to be ventilated by those who refuse to be intimidated.

H/T Malkin, GayPatriot

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That in a nation in which the President of the United States has a long personal and professional relationship with a domestic terrorist, his minions have crawled out of the woodwork to accuse everyone who shares Scott RoederÂ’s opposition to abortion as somehow complicit in the murder of George Tiller.

Take this crap as an example.

By mid-afternoon, authorities reportedly had someone in custody in connection with the murder of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller at his church on Sunday morning.

So far, we know very little about the suspect, other than that he's a man in his 50s and was driving a blue Ford when they stopped him outside Gardner.

However, the motive for the crime we can all surmise in light of the vitriolic campaign that has been waged against Tiller for more than two decades by anti-abortion groups.

And if we're right about that, then we already know the identities of his accomplices.

They include every one who has ever called Tiller's late term abortion clinic a murder mill.

Who ever called Tiller "Tiller the Killer."

The groups who spent decades fomenting hate toward a man who simply believed that he was serving a purpose by being one of the few doctors in the country performing late-term abortions.

Hate. Not heated opposition. Not strong disagreement.

But blind hatred.

Blind hatred? Hardly. Rather, those of us who have expressed our contempt for Tiller and the work he has performed in his human slaughterhouse have dared to speak truth to power by labeling Tiller’s “purpose” as what it what it was – the killing of our fellow human beings. We have done so because we see clearly and refuse to obscure the truth by cloaking his deeds with pretty words. To label one whose daily work was the killing of the most vulnerable among us as “Tiller the Killer” is not only not hatred or incitement or complicity – it is truth in advertising. I will not apologize for speaking and writing what is the indisputable truth – and daring to write and speak that truth does not make me culpable in Tiller’s murder, which I have unequivocally condemned.

As for the individual who killed George Tiller, I condemn his actions every bit as much as I condemned (and still condemn) George Tiller’s misdeeds. Scott Roeder is no hero, and is every bit as warped a human being as his victim was. Vigilante justice is not the answer to the evil that is abortion – and those who, like Roeder, resort to it are certainly every bit the enemy of the pro-life movement as those of Tiller’s ilk. Indeed, I’d have to go further and argue that they are even greater enemies of the innocents who are killed daily in the slaughterhouses operated by the nation’s abortionists than are the abortionists themselves.

Which is why I am shocked and disgusted to read the information in this article.

Those who know Roeder said he believed that killing abortion doctors was an act of justifiable homicide.

"I know that he believed in justifiable homicide," said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who made headlines in 1995 when she was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a bullhorn within 500 feet of any abortion clinic. "I know he very strongly believed that abortion was murder and that you ought to defend the little ones, both born and unborn."

Given other activities detailed in the article, it seems to me that folks who did know Roeder ought to have been calling the police about him on a regular basis – and given his past conviction for bomb-making as a part of the Freeman movement, his activities would have likely caused him to be arrested and taken off the streets. I’m also shocked to hear of the magazine Prayer and Action News – despite nearly a quarter century of involvement in various aspects of the pro-life movement, I’ve never heard of this publication, but now that I’ve heard of it, I unequivocally condemn the publication and those behind it. The entire notion that killing abortionists is justifiable homicide is an obscenity.

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