Can’t make this stuff up…

What were they thinking? Another one of those WTF moments in the never ending saga of the Narcissist-in-Chief. This is an affront to all “our boys” who fought and died in the service of their country.

A halo? Really? What other President has been deified by the media in this way? Are we supposed to actually believe BO is the Messiah? There is something tragically wrong with this picture. Replacing GOD with a man, insulting the memory of those who have died, displacing them with the superimposed BO who has never offered up his life in the service of our country and, now defiles their memorial.  Is there anyone more narcissistic and, less deserving to be their CiC, then BO?

It  no doubt took the president’s photogs some time to set up such an artsy pic with  the light just so, so as to provide the requisite halo round the One’s  consecrated cranium. Surely the pros and the pols couldn’t be bothered by the  plebian presence of actual rank and file Vietnam vets and their families while  such an important campaign event was underway.

I will let a real Veteran speak for me. His words mean a lot more then mine. I can only hope our military men and women are as disgusted by this phony display as I am.

 Democrats dishonor our monument by exploiting it for a photo shoot canonizing  their candidate on the sacred day set aside to honor those who earned their  place on that Wall with their lives? Every name there represents a comrade in  arms to me and I assuredly do not appreciate seeing it used for a phony campaign  photo by an affirmative action commander-in-chief who never deigned to don the  heavy burden of a steel helmet in service to this country.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/06/phony_halo_is_no_helmet.html#ixzz1wdxiiKYh

h/t to sportinlife10 for bringing this to my attention

open thread weekend

“It’s the economy, stupid”

Bill Clinton says Romney has a “sterling” business record.  He also states what BO’s campaign should be talking about is the difference in governing styles and policies and not Bain Capital. He does seem less then enthusiastic about BO’s re-election.

Former President Bill Clinton appeared on CNN this evening and provided a much different narrative than the Obama Campaign on Mitt Romney’s days at Bain Capital.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/05/31/Clinton-Romney-Sterling

Adding his voice to the many others on the left who have made positive public statements concerning Bain, and Romney’s success.

Romney is on the offensive now. Two great moments happened this week, one in Boston the other at the now bankrupt and closed Solyndra plant. It was a delight to watch David Axelrod lose it when Romney supporters shouted him down, much like what happened to Romney by the Obama supporters in Philly. Of course, BO doesn’t campaign in the inner city black neighborhoods, nor does he think he needs to. His campaign staff thinks they have that vote wrapped up. Why was Axelrod in Boston making a campaign speech in the first place? That, in itself, doesn’t make much sense. But, lately Axelrod has his little pudgy fingers in all aspects of the Presidency, including high security level meetings.

 I’ve never seen Axelrod so rattled, and my guess is that his being so shaken has little to do with the hecklers and more to do with the fact that Axelrod now knows that Mitt Romney is no John McCain.

As we saw in this year’s Republican primary, Romney is a tough customer who doesn’t allow the media to set the rules.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/31/Romney-Beats-Axelrod-At-His-Own-Game

Obama is telling his donors he may have to make changes to his “signature” legislation, Obamacare.

As he previewed his agenda for donors at a May 14 fundraiser, Obama said he may be forced to try to revise parts of his health-care plan, depending on how the court rules later this month, said one activist, who requested anonymity to discuss the president’s comments. Guests at the $35,800-a-plate dinner in the Manhattan apartment of Blackstone Group LP (BX)President Tony James were asked to check their smart phones and BlackBerries at the door.

BO doesn’t want you to know his confidence in the laws’ standing is waning. He’s having weekly meetings to discuss contingency plans.

 Last week, Gunn and Hilary Haycock from the White House attended, along with representatives from Families USA, Health Care for America Now, the Center for American Progress and labor organizations including the Service Employees International Union and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

“There’s a really strong feeling that getting out there and trying to do contingency planning out in public is not a very smart thing to do,” said Crittenden, also a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. “What we really want to do is to make sure that everyone is prepared to talk about the law when it comes up.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-01/obama-tells-donors-health-care-fight-may-loom-after-court-rules.html

While Romney is looking stronger, steadier, and more qualified, Obama is looking more paniced, secretive, and incompetent.

Unemployment is edging up again (8.2%), job creation is waning, as Clinton said “It’s the economy, stupid”.

open thread…..

It’s All Things MO Day!!

Since we haven’t had a post about “all things MO” for a while.  The First Nag is out and about harping about her gardening expertise and her new book. She certainly has come a long way from the ungrateful “what a mean country” meme four years ago. Now that she’s married to the POTUS, and she get all those incredible goodies, our FLOTUS just loves her taxpayer funded lifestyle. MO set the record straight on “The View” when asked about a possible political career.

The release of the first lady’s first book comes amid whispers  that she’s setting herself up for something more than another four years in the  East Wing as she becomes an increasingly prominent campaign trail surrogate for  her husband. New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote last week about a “vague murmuring” that  Obama will run for Senate in 2016.

Those murmurings, Obama said Tuesday, are “other peoples’ rumors” — she is “absolutely not” interested in politics.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76822.html#ixzz1wHr8vBHS

Breaking news, we aren’t interested in having MO in the political arena either. I do think what we have already experienced is sufficient. Besides that, it would be a step down from the lofty perch she now occupies.

MO’s “food initiative”, otherwise known as the tyranny of redistribution of wealth funded by the taxpayers, has one ultimate goal. To ingratiate “children to government as the overseer of food, exercise, and economic fairness  — the notion that American Grown is government inspired….” American Grown isn’t just a book.  It is more convoluted  means to the same fundamental and transformative end.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/government_to_fork_the_obama_garden.html#ixzz1wHv8azep
We all realize that MO and CO won’t be returning to Chicago when BO loses in November. That is not the luxe lifestyle they have become accustomed to. We know from past conversations they will move to Hawaii where BO’s family now resides. I do hope she’s not too disappointed when finding out the taxpayers will not be footing the bill for a highend lifestyle.

Asked in a USA Today interview “Do you miss living in Chicago?” Mrs. Obama in reply raised the prospect that once the Obama family leaves the White House they may build their lives “somewhere else.”

Mrs. Obama made her comments to USA Today’s Susan Page in in connection with the release Tuesday of her book, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.”

“The community in Chicago, you know, you always miss that. But what I have found — and I talk to my kids about this all the time — is that home is where we are at any given time. Where me, Barack, Malia and Sasha, where our family is.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/05/michelle_obama_hints_again_may.html

Why would they go back to Chicago? They’ve already climbed to the heights on the backs of everyone in that political cesspool. It seems to me they have called in all the available political favors in that city and it’s time to move on and find a new bunch of suckers to ply for favors.

If that isn’t enough of “all things MO”, the following link has an excerpt from her new book   ’American Grown’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9294638/Recipes-from-Michelle-Obamas-White-House-Kitchen-Garden.html

 

“Honor” before everything

That’s what my father, a veteran, taught us. This weekend we memorialize and honor all those Americans who have gone before us. Those who helped build this country, fought and died for this country and, believed in freedom enough to come and be part of this great and glorious experiment that is our Republic. This weekend we will travel to the places our heroic Americans are laid to rest, visit their Memorials and remember them for their courage. Above all we will honor them for the greatest gift all of us can be given, freedom.

We cherish too, the Poppy red

That grows on fields where valor led,

It seems to signal to the skies

That blood of heroes never dies.

http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/

We would not be who we are without them and, their honor and fidelity.

Have a good weekend with your family and friends…….open thread

Is that all BO’s got?

If denigrating a successful Governor and businessman is all BO can muster for his campaign, he is definitely in deep trouble.

Virtually every gambit and issue (“war on women,” gay marriage, and now Bain) has gone haywire, arguably  inflicting more damage to Obama than to Mitt Romney.

Does the BO campaign staff not see the incongruity of complaining about Romney’s success when all of them expect to have the same type of success in their lives whether in the private sector of business or the public sector of government?  Bo’s attacks on Romney’s wealth make him look petty and childish. After all, those who seek power are also seeking wealth and, a second term for BO would increase his wealth exponentially.

As the Wall Street Journal editorial board put it: “If the campaign is going to successfully demonize Mitt Romney as a marauding capitalist, it can’t have fellow Democrats defending capitalism. . . . The Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain haven’t gone very well, in part because the claims are so transparently cynical. Everyone knows they’re cherry-picking facts, focusing on the rare Bain Capital failures while ignoring the successes — all in order to distract attention from the failed results of Mr. Obama’s economic policies.”

Mayor Booker, Harold Ford Jr., even Democrats in Congress and BO’s Automotive Czar are speaking out in support of capitalism and venture equity firms. Star ups in private sector, real estate, etc; all need some sort of venture capital. When it comes to understanding business and the way capital works BO is an amateur. He is economically illiterate.  His failures in his preferential “investments” have cost US taxpayers billions and thousands of jobs. His refusal to support the Keystone Pipeline is another example of punishing American workers for the benefit of lobbyists that support him. Obama is at best an empty suit and ignoramus when it comes to our economy.  The real problem for Obama is he has no coherent message and can’t run on any accomplishments. The only message coming out of the Obama camp is Romney is bad because he earned his wealth. Half the voters in this country happen to think that earned wealth is a good thing. When it comes to the economy, the majority of people polled say they trust Romney more then BO. Romney may not have the same “cool” as BO but, when does “cool” or “likability” become a reason to vote for a candidate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/path-to-the-white-house/2012/05/21/gIQAB30agU_blog.html