Gryffn Musings

The Obamas at an Arab fund-raiser

Today is the 9th anniversary of 9/11. We should clearly see that the Israelis are our only ally in the region and consequently, we must support them here at home.

As Israeli and Palestinian peace talks resumed in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland is an essential condition for peace. Completely reasonable, but don't hold your breath, especially with the Obama administration's attitude toward Israel.

Can you believe we're even having a discussion about Israel's right to the land six-plus decades and numerous wars after the modern Israeli state was restored to the Jews?

It's bad enough when misfit countries oppose Israel's right to existence and always demonize Israel while downplaying the Palestinians' misdeeds, but it's shocking and disturbing when the president of the United States abuses our greatest ally in the Mideast.

It's mystifying that so many Jewish people in America have been so tolerant of Obama's behavior toward Israel, almost as if in denial, but what more evidence do we need?

Obama is an anti-Semite, anti Jewish. Check this –

Obama's official campaign website, Organizing for America, allowed a post entitled "How the Jewish Lobby Works."  Yup, let's blame it all on the Jews.

The post said: "No lobby is feared more or catered to by politicians than the Jewish Lobby. If a politician does not play ball with the Jewish Lobby, he will not get elected, or re-elected, and he will either be smeared or ignored by the Jewish-owned major media." NewsBusters cited numerous other links to similar anti-Jewish posts on the website, showing this was not an isolated event.

Remember the 20 years with Rev. Wright's anti-Jewish rants.
 
Hillary Clinton denounced Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza while ignoring the many Palestinian sins against Israel.

Obama demands that Israel negotiate with Syria — a primary sponsor of Hezbollah — just two days after Syrian foreign minister Walid Mueller praised a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling Israel "the most cruel and repressive racist regime."

Obama made us return to the U.N. Human Rights Council, which the Bush administration had left nine months before because the council had incessantly condemned Israel while ignoring the abuses of Mideast dictatorships.

Obama snubbed Netanyahu and announced he would discontinue the established practice of hosting Israeli prime ministers when they are in Washington.

Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, adopted the controversial 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which called for Israel to withdraw from east Jerusalem, the entire West Bank and Golan Heights and also for Israel to accept the influx of millions of foreign Arabs as Israeli citizens as part of the "right of return." Mideast expert Caroline Glick says this would mean "Israel would effectively cease to be a Jewish state."

Vice President Biden engaged in a public temper tantrum and harshly "condemned" Israel for not bowing to the administration's demands.

So, how can Senator Obama be pro-Israel and have so many anti-Israel buddies? Well, one prominent Palestinian-American will tell you that Obama is hiding his true feelings toward the Jewish State.

Ali Abunimah is a pro-Arab journalist and founder of the Electronic Intifada website. He will tell you that Senator Obama is full of crap when he says that he is pro-Israel: "If disappointing, given his historically close relations to Palestinian-Americans, Obama's about-face is not surprising. He is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected."

It all boils down to the destruction of Israel, and that is the wagon Obama has hitched his star to.

Everyone, not just American Jews, needs to wake up.

D Limbaugh, Townhall
 

Maybe this is a new age way to jumpstart the economy, but more than likely it’s just another idiotic PR move by this administration. With the economy in the tank and getting worse, hosting dance parties probably isn't the best idea. But this is just the latest in a long line of White House partying – McCartney, country night, jazz night, Latin American night. For an administration supposedly concerned about Americans, their actions certainly don't show it. Get the full story HERE.

President Obama has a weakness for thinking in categories — compartmentalizing. For someone who provokes swoons among liberals for his great intellect, he has repeatedly evidenced an unsophisticated, one might even say simple-minded, view of the world: Workers good; bosses exploitative. Borrowers good; lenders bad. Patients good; insurance companies bad. Again and again, the president and his spokesmen have justified their expansions of government power as efforts to help those who "through no fault of their own" find themselves in difficulties.

Most politicians drag this "I'll take care of you" rhetoric out during campaigns, but Obama has institutionalized it in policy.He has a veritable Ph.D (piled high and deep) degree in it.

One of those piles — the Home Affordable Modification Program — was a total failure.

Recall that in February 2009, President Obama proposed to solve a "crisis unlike we've ever known." It wasn't, the president insisted, that anyone had made poor decisions — [of course not - let's not confuse the people with "accountability" here].

"It begins with a young family … They save up … They choose a home that feels like the perfect place to start a life. They secure a fixed-rate mortgage at a reasonable rate, and they make a down payment, and they make their mortgage payments each month. They are as responsible as anyone could ask them to be." But then someone loses a job, a spouse has his or her hours cut, or a child becomes sick.

Um, isn't that called "Life"?  Life happens as a result of the decisions we make. Such a simple concept which frees us because we know we are in charge of our lives. Don't like your circumstances? Make different choices.

We live on the planet Earth, not in a bubble. One cannot protect people from"Life" — or their decisions — or the consequences of such decisions.

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP for those who speak Washingtonese) blasted the program in a July report:

"Treasury's refusal to provide meaningful goals for this important program is a fundamental failure of transparency and accountability that makes it far more difficult for the American people and their representatives in Congress to assess whether the program's benefits are worth its very substantial cost.

"The American people are essentially being asked to shoulder an additional $50 billion of national debt without being told, more than 16 months after the program's announcement, how many people Treasury hopes to actually help stay in their homes as a result of these expenditures, how many people are intended to be helped through other subprograms, and how the program is performing against those expectations and goals. Without such clearly defined standards, positive comments regarding the progress or success of HAMP are simply not credible, and the growing public suspicion that the program is an outright failure will continue to spread.

In contrast to the Obama morality play, the foreclosure crisis was not a conspiracy of the rich and powerful against dutiful homeowners reliably making their monthly payments. It was the result of multiple stupidity by government, bankers, and individuals. Obama's instinct to insulate people from the consequences of their bad decisions (and yes, sometimes bad luck) amounts to subsidizing failure. The results are coming in daily — persistent high unemployment, an anemic recovery, and billions upon billions of wasted taxpayer's money.

– based upon article by Mona Charen

There are multiple reasons that 24+ percent of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim: he is always on the campaign trail for Islam. He proselytizes for Islamic goals and dreams like a member of the faithful.

He endlessly recounts his background to establish his street creds with the Muslim world. "I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims," he told a Muslim audience in Cairo. "As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. … I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed."

And it is true. Our memories from the youngest ages stay with us and always feel familiar and like "home." In this regard he is a Muslim and identifies with Islam.

One could argue whether this was preferable to the hatred emanating from Rev Wright's so-called "church" and Liberation Theology Marxist teachings. When did Jesus ever spew hatred? When did he ever claim that anyone different form Him was putrid, unclean and could not be touched? When did He call for the eradication of other religions?

The answer is never and there is your major difference between Christianity and Islam. One calls for forgiveness and love. The other calls for hatred and conquest.

While Obama continues to proclaim to the Muslim world, "I am on your side" and heralding his Muslim parentage on Muslim soil, speaking of Islam's "revelation," talking about living in a Muslim country, Americans scratch their heads in confusion.

In Cairo, Obama said his job as president of the United States is to "fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." Is that his job as President of the United States? How about dumping the idiot economists you have their and really bring jobs back?

Obama's bow to the navel of the Saudi king, the leader of the most Sharia country, where women cannot drive, have to be swathed in black with only eyes showing, should raise a warning flag.

American leaders do not bow before foreign leaders. Period. But not only did Obama bow, he specifically bowed to the leader of the Muslim country where Mecca lies. Why?

Then the White House ridiculously attempted to claim that the bow never happened in the first place. As if we never saw it.

Obama has consistently sided with Muslims against American allies. He has thrown Israel under the bus while supporting the idea of a "contiguous" Palestinian state, which by definition would mean splitting Israel in half.

He has barred Israel from taking action against Iran even as Iran goes nuclear.

He has backed a UN resolution condemning Israel's nuclear weapons and ignoring Iran's.

He has supported Raila Odinga, a radical Muslim politician in Kenya who has pledged to rewrite Kenya's Constitution to recognize Shariah as the only true law and establish Shariah courts in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.

He has abandoned Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, an anti-Islamist in Bangladesh who has been imprisoned and prosecuted for supporting Israel's right to exist.

He has endorsed the mosque two blocks from Ground Zero despite the fact that the imam of the proposed "bridge-building" mosque is a radical Islamist who refuses to condemn Hamas and believes that the United States is responsible for 9/11.

He has endowed NASA with the glorious mission to "find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering." Oi vey.

Oh, I guess we gloss over the fact that the Arabs took the concept of numbers and zero from India. But I digress.

Obama may not be a practicing Muslim, but he is a sellout to the radical Muslim world.

No wonder we are confused.

– based upon Townhall article by Ben Shapiro

Jean-Michel Cousteau (center) was turned away from a wildlife sanctuary by the U.S. Coast Guard after they discovered that an AP photographer was on board.

They don't want you to see this:

Last week, a CBS TV crew was threatened with arrest when attempting to film an oil-covered beach. On Monday, Mother Jones published this firsthand account of one reporter’s repeated attempts to gain access to clean-up operations on oil-soaked beaches, and the telling response of local law enforcement. The latest instance of denied press access comes from Belle Chasse, La.-based Southern Seaplane Inc., which was scheduled to take a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer for a flyover on Tuesday afternoon, and says it was denied permission once BP officials learned that a member of the press would be on board.

Here is the New Rule from the Police State:

Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 fine and even one to five years in prison under a new rule instituted by the Coast Guard late last week. A "willful" violation of the new rule could result in Class D felony charges, which carry a penalty of one to five years in prison under federal law.

It's a move that outraged observers have decried as an attack on First Amendment rights. And CNN's Anderson Cooper describes the new rules as making it "very easy to hide incompetence or failure". . . .by  banning reporters from "anywhere we need to be" . . . .

Remember Adm. Thad Allen promised: "Media will have uninhibited access anywhere we're doing operations, except for two things, if it's a security or safety problem," Allen told ABC News in June. . . . LIES, LIES, and more LIES.

"[T]o create a blanket rule that everyone has to stay 65 feet away from boom and boats, that doesn't sound like transparency," [said Cooper].

"With this, the Gulf Coast cleanup operation has now entered a weird Orwellian reality where the news is shaped, censored and controlled by the government in order to prevent the public from learning the truth about what's really happening," writes Mike Adams at NaturalNews. . . .

Reporters have been complaining for weeks about BP, the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard working to keep reporters away from wrenching images of oil-covered birds and oil-soaked beaches.

Here is a suggestion: take an amateur photog along as an "aide". There are hundreds of us with Canons and Nikons and good lenses that can do the same job for you.

Photographers say BP and government officials are preventing them from documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Give me a break!!

What kind of crap is this now? No more shuttle missions. No Moon exploration. But a big yes to Muslims.

In the video below, Charles Bolden, head of NASA, tells Al Jazeera that the "foremost" task President Obama has given him is "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering."

Is Obama the President of the Muslims? Shouldn't he be boosting the self-esteem and learning of American children?  Shouldn't he be protecting American citizens from harm from Mexican drug cartels in Arizona? What the hell is wrong with him!!!

Here's what licensed psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer had to say: (Gateway Pundit):

"This is a new of fatuousness. NASA was established to get America into space and to keep us there. This idea of 'feel good about your past' scientific achievements is the worst kind of group therapy, psycho-babble, imperial condescension and adolescent diplomacy. If I didn't know that Obama had told him this, I'd demand the firing of Charles Bolden."