Tricky Politics: March 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Obama’s New Improved National Anthem

Obama Pink Floyd Parody Music Video

Pink Floyd parody offering about Obama indoctrination in the government schools... as well as his connection to Ayers and ACORN. www.chimpsyradio.com/cra.html

Thursday, March 11, 2010

BORN IN THE USA? McCain vs Obama

BORN IN THE USA?

Meet McCain 'birthers': ABC, CBS, NBC, FactCheck, N.Y. Times, more

Eligibility issue was huge in 2008 when Obama opponent was focus of attention

Posted: March 08, 2010
9:30 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Many of the same news organizations and research groups today dismissing concerns about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility were far more eager to cover the issue when Republican presidential candidate John McCain was the subject.

An archive search shows the question of McCain's birth certificate and his eligibility to be president was actively pursued by Democratic Party activists and the mainstream media in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, despite the ridicule now heaped upon those questioning Obama's qualifications under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

In an article published Feb. 28, 2008, months before McCain was nominated for president by the Republican Party, FactCheck.org, at the very center of Obama's defense against eligibility questions, was itself raising them about McCain.

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In a piece that led off with the question, "How can Panamanian-born McCain be elected president?" FactCheck.org conceded McCain did meet the natural-born citizen requirements. But the website qualified its answer, stating that if McCain did win the presidency, the issue could be challenged in court.

After the Republican and Democratic conventions, on, FactCheck.org weighed into the Obama eligibility debate Aug. 21, 2008," claiming its "staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate." The certificate in question, however, was a short-form Certification of Live Birth, or COLB, not a hospital-generated long-form birth certificate listing the hospital where Obama was born as well as other relevant birth information, including the name of the attending physician.

Almost coincident with the FactCheck.org article, a flurry of mainstream media news pieces popped up about McCain's eligibility to be president.

On Feb. 28, 2008, Carl Hulse wrote a New York Times article, "McCain's Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out."

"To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states," Hulse wrote.

Picking up on the Times piece, MSNBC.com ran a feature on the same day posing the question, "Born in the USA?"

The Wall Street Journal the same day published a Law Blog column asking: "Does John McCain Have a Birthplace Problem?"

CBS News speculated McCain's eligibility question "could conceivably end up in before the Supreme Court," adding the comment, "And you thought counting chads was a circus."

The next day, the Times of London published a similar piece, "McCain's Panama birth prompts eligibility probe by his campaign."

NBC correspondent Pete Williams also published a piece Feb. 29, 2008, on the MSNBC website, "McCain's citizenship called into question."

"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his advisers are doing their best to brush aside questions – raised in the liberal blogosphere – about whether he is qualified under the Constitution to be president," Williams wrote. "But many legal scholars and government lawyers say it's a serious question with no clear answer."

On April 10, 2008, ABC reporter Jake Tapper published a piece on the ABC News website in which he noted the Constitution "does not define 'natural born citizen,'" pointing out that "McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone to parents who were U.S. citizens, but some scholars have questioned that it suffices."

Then, on April 11, 2008, the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog published a piece noting that Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., introduced a non-binding resolution expressing McCain qualifies as a natural-born citizen under terms of the Constitution.

The Leahy-McCaskill resolution, ultimately passed by the Senate unanimously was co-sponsored by Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who at the time were competing for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Even this was not enough to stop liberal activists and the mainstream media from continuing to keep alive questions about McCain's eligibility.

In a Washington Post story May 2, 2008, reporter Michael Dobbs questioned whether the Senate's unanimously passed resolution was sufficient to settle the matter of whether McCain was a natural-born citizen eligible to be president.

Dismissing the Senate resolution, Dobbs wrote that the Senate vote "is simply an opinion that has little bearing on an arcane constitutional debate that has preoccupied legal scholars for many weeks."

Dobbs noted at the time the article was published "three pending cases are challenging McCain's right to be president" because even though both his parents were U.S. citizens, his father was in the Navy, and McCain was born at the U.S. Naval Station based in Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone on Aug. 29, 1939.

While acknowledging that a senior official of the McCain campaign had shown reporters a copy of McCain's birth certificate issued by the Canal Zone hospital – something the Obama presidential campaign and presidency have so far refused to do – he questioned why McCain did not release the birth certificate to the press generally.

In addition to media scrutiny, McCain testified before a U.S. Senate committee and produced his long-form birth certificate for inspection.

On May 12, 2008, PolitiFact.com, a website that has dismissed questions about Obama's eligibility, published an article authored by Robert Farley, "Was McCain born in the USA?"

Noting that the question of McCain's eligibility is "rooted in legal opinions," not in facts, PolitiFact.org begged off giving McCain's eligibility question a truth rating, claiming its "customary True-False ratings don't quite fit here."

PolitiFact repeated the Washington Post complaint that McCain had not released his hospital-generated birth certificate publicly, opting instead to "let a Washington Post reporter take a peek at it."

PolitiFact, however, did not note that the Obama campaign refused all inquiries asking to see the Illinois senator's hospital-generated long-form birth certificate.

PolitiFact also dismissed congressional resolutions affirming McCain's eligibility to be president as a natural-born citizen, quoting Atlanta attorney Jill Pryor, who wrote a 20-year-old paper published in the Yale Law Journal in which she argued that Congress' interpretation of the natural-born citizen clause is not binding on the courts.

On June 12, 2008, the left-leaning DailyKos.com posted a piece by blogger "andyfoland", "The Bombshell on McCain's Birth Certificate," claiming McCain had "no interest in releasing his birth certificate" because he "actually wasn't born in the United States," and "McCain has done a good job keeping the public at large from catching on that he was born in Panama."

On June 20, 2008, editorial writer Tod Robberson wrote in a Dallas Morning News opinion blog that McCain's citizenship was "still in question," after a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District courts questioning the issue.

Displaying what he claimed was a copy of McCain's hospital-generated long-form birth certificate, Robberson wrote, "The argument is very strong against McCain being regarded 'a natural-born' citizen' as required by law."

Why?

"[McCain] was born in Panama in 1936, at a time when the State Department and the Hay-Bunau Treaty, which granted the U.S. access to the Panama Canal Zone, specifically stated that the Canal Zone was not sovereign U.S. territory," Robberson argued.

To drive home the point, a link in Robberson's piece displayed as a .pdf file the lawsuit papers filed by plaintiff Fred Hollander in the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire questioning McCain's eligibility.

The New York Times returned once again to McCain's eligibility in a July 11, 2008, article published by law reporter Adam Liptak, with contributions from Carl Hulse, "A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue."

The New York Times featured an analysis by University of Arizona law professor Gabriel J. Chin that asserted a 1937 law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, arguing the law made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday.

"In his paper and in an interview, Professor Chin, a registered Democrat, insisted he had no political motive in raising the question," the Times wrote.

UPI published a story July 11, 2008, under the headline "McCain not natural-born citizen, prof says," repeating the New York Times story about Gabriel Chin's legal analysis.

A lawsuit challenging McCain's qualifications was pending in a federal court in Concord, N.H., the UPI story noted.

Newsbuster.org characterized Liptak's New York Times article as "a meaningless, but prominently placed, 900-word story to further chip away at John McCain's stature," noting the New York Times had yet to publish an article discussing Internet questioning about Obama's eligibility.

In July 2008, Snopes.com, which portrays itself as an independent fact-checker, classified as "undetermined" the claim that John McCain does not qualify to be president as a natural-born citizen.

"As much as we'd like to dismiss this one as just another frivolous election season rumor, it's impossible to make any definitive statement about Senator McCain's presidential eligibility because the issue is a matter of law rather than fact, and the law is ambiguous," Snopes.com wrote.

But only one month before, in June 2008, Snopes.com confidently disqualified as "false" the assertion that Barack Obama was not eligible to be president, affirming instead that he was a natural-born citizen within the meaning of Article II, Section 1.

With equal confidence, Snopes.com in the same month dismissed as "false" the claim that the short-form Certification of Live Birth provided by the Obama presidential campaign was a forgery.

On Sept. 18, 2008, after McCain had won the Republican Party presidential nomination, Law.com reported a San Francisco federal judge ruled McCain's assertion of U.S. citizenship was "highly probable."

Third-party presidential candidate Alan Keyes was excoriated for bringing a federal lawsuit challenging Obama's eligibility, but as the Law.com article pointed out, Keyes had also brought the U.S. District court challenge of McCain's eligibility.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, the Web continued to buzz with stories questioning McCain's eligibility without reporting similar issues were being raised about Obama.

See the spin and the Obama birth certificate story white wash with video.

What the Hell Are Colleges Teaching?

To put it bluntly the title says it all. From constantly hearing in the news reports of professors with extremist views trying to rewrite history in their classrooms, violating ethics, having affairs with students and other doing other things I assume are not in their job descriptions, I’m always wondering why aren’t they fired?

Well just like everything else in this world it boils down to politics, it’s everywhere, in the schools, political office, churches, non-profit organizations. Politics has become a very naughty word used to describe liars, crooks and thieves.

I don’t want to turn this into an outright political discussion and bore the hell out of everyone reading this so let’s get on to the meat of the story which is this video I came across on youtube. We’ve seen plenty of videos like this from liberals during election times to paint a picture and it was found acceptable no matter how obviously setup or doctored, let’s see what this one does for you.

This just may be one of the biggest reasons our country is in the trouble it is in today. It begins at the education level, for years now our children have been exposed to indoctrination education and the effects are clear.

This video doesn't examine the little kiddies but rather students from a supposed prestigious university where where many of our leaders in political office get their training prep to govern. So you have to ask yourself, what are they being taught there and who the heck is teaching them, that will have to wait for another story, we already have seen in the news everything from domestic terrorist to child molesters teaching in colleges and amazingly they are able to keep those jobs even after being exposed.

This video explores the campus of UC Berkley, it looks more like they are promoting idiocy, take a look for yourself. This is really disgusting and pathetic.

Steven Crowder goes undercover exposing UC Berkeley's liberal bias and the indoctrination underway in its classrooms. You won't believe the hilarious and alarming interactions Steven has with the Berkeley students.

See how grade schools are
rewriting history!

Reagan Gets the Shaft in Textbooks

Expert: Reagan Gets the Shaft in Textbooks

March 11, 2010 - 1:45 PM | by: Shannon Bream

If you want to know just what your kids are learning from their history books, all you have to do is apply the "Reagan test," says Professor Larry Schweikart.

As the Texas textbook battle continues to simmer, Schweikart says the first thing he does to determine whether a book is politically slanted is to go to any section discussing President Ronald Reagan. What you'll find there, he says, will tell you everything you need to know, he says.

Schweikart says the majority of books he’s examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, and not Reagan. That's “a joke,” Schweikart says. “I lived through the Reagan years, I remember.”

“The reason why textbooks get to where they are is because this is the world view of (a) the people who write the text books, (b) people who edit the text books, and (c) people who publish them,” the history professor says.

Schweikart says the textbooks' authors bring an inherently liberal viewpoint to their work.

“They all tend to come from New York, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia,” giving them a “drastically” different viewpoint from the rest of America, he says.

Aside from bias, there are factual errors as well.

One book -- Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1877 (Holt, 2003) -- states on pages 53-54 that Christopher Columbus was "the first European explorer to land in the Americas." But Norseman Leif Ericson actually arrived hundreds of years earlier – a fact that is stated on page 18 of the same book.

How about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803? The same textbook says that the Louisiana Purchase extended America to the Mississippi River, when it actually expanded all the way to the Rocky Mountains.

Another text, The American Nation: Beginnings Through 1877 (Prentice, 2003), states that the city of New Orleans was settled by the French in the 1600s. But didn’t actually happen until 1718.

With this in mind, parents may be inspired to start digging into their own children’s books to see what’s inside. And experts say that's a great idea.

Gilbert T. Sewall, Director of the American Textbook Council, says: “The facts are often used to create an interpretation or reality that simply is at the very least controversial and may be dead wrong.”

Dr. Frank Wang, one-time president of Saxon Publishing, says there are serious “quality control” problems. Wang cautions that many books are thrown together on a tight schedule by a group of freelance writers, leaving them with little time or pride of authorship. He’s spotted errors touching on everything from the Statue of Liberty to the Korean War.

Sewall is also aware of the mistakes. “The problem with textbooks," he says, "is missing information, or distorted information.”

See what they learn in college!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Political Satire Redux

Well, here it goes another round of funny political humor to reflect current events and antics in Washington D.C.

A little Political Satire to get you thinking and laughing at the same time.

POTUS (Presidents of the United States)

How they try to portray themselves

Washington DC Can't create JOBS...
Small Businesses create jobs, it's so simple!!!

The new explanation!

Historic President alright....

They are starting to sweat it now....

Yep....Recession is over...

Confident?

Spending Freeze

State of...

Hope, Wishing Well…

Obama Care

Government Fueling an Engine Forgetting about the tank

Saved Job Estimate Calculations

Still not dead

Silence the Critics

Child Torture

State of the Union

Let me be Clear

Pants on the Ground

Independents

Just when ya thought

To the Rescue

Health Care Reform Transparency on CSPAN

Health Coverage

Like it or not, You’re getting it!!!

Home of the Leeches and not of the brave anymore! Shameful…

Shovel Ready Jobs

Ignorant Protecting the Ignorant

Culture of the Left

Political Guide to Racism

Politically Correct Security Policy

Health Care Snags

No more passing of gas either!!!! It will be against the law!!!

Straight from the mouth of King Obama's bafoon!!!!

How's that Hope and Change working out for you America?
It's the Economy STUPID!! It's the CONSTITUTION, Moron!!
It's the will of the PEOPLE

He doesn’t care if you don’t support it, believe in it or if it’s against your religion, none of the democrats do. Maybe if you were a Muslim they would change their mind. Anyway, NOT with my money buddy.

Political Suicide!!!!!

A criminal act against our Republic…

It must be nice!!!!This is your agent of Change!!!

I can't believe Americans actually fell for this....

Brainless,corrupt,,,and slimy politics!!! Change you can believe in!

AGENT OF CHANGE , my eye!

Call to Action

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If you can make there, you will ake anywhere,,,Soon you will have Terrorist being aquitted roaming your streets. On a technicality....thanks to Obama and Holder!!!

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