OBAMA & Rahm Emanuel IN 18 MONTHS , HAVE SUCCESSFULLY LED AMERICA TO THIS
DISASTER.
AMERICA WAKE UP AND FIGHT BACK.
LOOK TO THIS REPORT .
Emanuel links fall elections to GOP support of BP
Jun 20 09:18 AM US/Eastern
(AP) - President Barack Obama's chief of staff is warning about what might
happen if Republicans—who have defended BP over the Gulf oil spill—were to run
Congress after the fall election.
Rahm Emanuel says the GOP philosophy is to paint BP as the victim. He says
Obama will make clear to voters the fundamental differences in how each party
would govern.
Emanuel tells ABC's "This Week" it would be "dangerous" if the GOP held power
in Washington.
He says GOP lawmakers and candidates are attacking the administration for
demanding that BP set up a $20 billion compensation fund.
Last week, Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP for what he called a White House
"shakedown." The Texas Republican later stepped back from those remarks.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Barack OBAMA vs Thomas sowell
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Oil and Snake Oil The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in
itself. But politics can make anything worse. .
Just what is Obama going to do in his shirt sleeves, except impress the
gullible? He might as well have shown up in a tuxedo with white tie, for all
the difference it makes.
This government is not about governing. It is about creating an impression.
That worked on the campaign trail in 2008, but it is a disaster in the White
House, where rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
If the Obama administration was for real, and trying to help get the oil spill
contained as soon as possible, the last thing its Attorney General would be
doing is threatening a lawsuit. A lawsuit is not going to stop the oil, and
creating a distraction can only make people at BP start directing their
attention toward covering themselves, instead of covering the oil well.
If and when the Attorney General finds that BP did something illegal, that will
be time enough to start a lawsuit. But making a public announcement at this
time accomplishes absolutely nothing substantive. It is just more political
grandstanding.
This is not about oil. This is about snake oil.
Nothing will keep a man or an institution determined to continue on a failing
policy course like past success with that policy. Obama's political success in
the 2008 election campaign was a spectacular triumph of creating images and
impressions.
But creating political impressions and images is not the same thing as
governing. Yet Obama in the White House keeps on saying and doing things to
impress people, instead of governing.
Once the elections were over and the time for governing began, there was now a
new audience to consider-- a much more savvy audience, the leaders of other
countries around the world.
However impressed the media and the Obama cult might be with the President's
image, rhetoric and style, leaders of other countries-- allies and enemies
alike-- are interested in results.
Even our domestic policies can affect foreign leaders, as Ronald Reagan's
breaking of the air traffic controllers' strike impressed the Russians with
what kind of man they were going to have to deal with, as former Soviet
officials said publicly many years later.
By the same token, domestic bungling by Barack Obama sends a dangerous signal
to countries hostile to us, in addition to the signal sent by his displays of
amateurism on the world stage.
President Obama had barely settled into the White House before he began
demonstrating his willingness to sell out this country's friends to appease our
enemies. His trip to Moscow to try to make a deal with the Russians, based on
reneging on the pre-existing American commitment to put a missile shield in
Eastern Europe, was the kind of short-sighted betrayal whose consequences can
come back to haunt a nation for years.
Obama spoke grandly about "pressing the reset button" on international
relations, as if all the international commitments of the past were his to
disregard.
But if no American commitment can be depended upon beyond a current
administration, then any nation that allies itself with us is jeopardizing its
own national security, because dangers in the international jungle last longer
than 4 years or even 8 years.
We are already seeing the consequences. Even Turkey-- formally a NATO ally-- is
cozying up to Iran, now that it is painfully clear that Obama is not going to
do anything that has any realistic chance of stopping Iran from going nuclear.
If leaders of other nations can't depend on the United States, then they need
to make the best deal they can with our enemies. They understand that
preserving their nation's security is a leader's top priority, even if Barack
Obama doesn't.
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General,
there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we
seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan.
We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...."
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Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many
others in his neighborhood, Thomas Sowell left home early and did not finish
high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined
the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War.
After leaving the service, Thomas Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a
part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his
passion and profession: economics.
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), Thomas Sowell
went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959)
and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).
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