Like Slimey Cockroaches & their crooked President, Liberals Spread Disease

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A Gut Check on What Obama Means by 'Fairness'
By David Catron on 8.8.12 @ 6:09AM
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/08/a-gut-check-on-what-obama-mean

Obama receives preventive care his HHS bureaucrats deny Medicare patients.

Last month, the President told a crowd of supporters in Texas that he was glad his unpopular health care law is known as "Obamacare" to its opponents: "You know what, they're right, I do care. I care about folks who get sick ..." This claim would have been more truthful had he told them he cares about some folks who become ill. Indeed, it would have been more consistent with his actual behavior had he said, "I care about myself when I get sick." President Obama, you see, has been availing himself of medical tests his HHS apparatchiks won't approve for payment if Medicare patients receive them.

In his routine physicals, for example, he has taken advantage of a state-of the art test shown by studies to be effective at detecting early colon cancer without exposing the patient to the potential risks associated with traditional colonoscopy: "President Obama, in his first routine physical exam as commander in chief, received a CT colonography (CTC), commonly known as a virtual colonoscopy, to screen him for colorectal cancer." A good call by Obama and his doctors. Unfortunately for Medicare patients, his HHS apparatchiks have decreed that Medicare patients will not enjoy the same quality of care.

In 2009, the government's health care bureaucrats decided, "The evidence is inadequate to conclude that CT colonography is an appropriate colorectal cancer screening test." Somehow, though, the evidence was convincing enough for the President's doctors to recommend it. And the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society said at the time, "Virtual colonoscopy, or CT colonography, ought to be available as one of several options for colon cancer screening." So, if it's good enough for the leader of the free world, why isn't it good enough for Medicare patients? Well, one reason involved a concern "that costs would increase..."

Take a moment to consider that. The President of the United States, a public servant paid by the taxpayers, followed the advice of his taxpayer-paid doctors that he should have a taxpayer-paid CTC. Yet his health care commissars, also paid by taxpayers, have decreed that that it is too expensive to provide this very test to actual taxpayers when they retire and sign up for the Medicare program for which they have been paying all their working lives. This perverse system, it should be remembered, is not merely presided over but taken advantage of by a man who incessantly lectures these very taxpayers about "fairness."

And this is by no means the only example of Obama's peculiar brand of fairness. Paul Hsieh, a practicing radiologist and proponent of free-market health care, recently reported more of the same in a Forbes column titled, "Is the President's Prostate Gland More Important Than Yours?" Writing that Obama chose to have a PSA test when he turned 50, Hsieh points out that the rest of us may not have that option once Obamacare is implemented: "ObamaCare empowers the government U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to determine which preventive health services are medically appropriate."

Does the USPSTF sound familiar? It should. It's the bevy of Beltway bureaucrats who recommended restricting screening mammograms to women over age 50. The uproar caused by that proposal caused such a headache for the people trying to pass Obamacare that HHS Commissar Sebelius was eventually forced to partially walk it back. But this bureaucracy is still animated by an affinity for rationing. And, as Hsieh writes, this affinity isn't limited to preventive care for women: "This year, the USPSTF aroused similar controversy by giving a 'D' grade ('not recommended') to routine PSA prostate cancer screening."

PSA screening is not, of course, blessed with a perfect record of accuracy. Even the American Cancer Society has stopped short of a full-throated endorsement of the test. Yet the physicians who actually treat the victims of prostate cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer deaths, oppose the USPSTF guidelines. Hsieh links to this story about the annual meeting of the American Urological Association at which the majority of urologists present were not merely opposed to the guidelines but mad as hell about them. They are well aware of the role USPSTF will play under Obamacare and they know it will kill people.

But not the President. Obama won't have to do without a PSA or a CTC any more than his wife will have to wait until she's 50 to get a screening mammogram. Neither will ever be subjected to the tender mercies of the soulless drones with which he has filled the adumbral halls of HHS. Both will get what they need, and you will get the bill. The president has frequently said he wants everyone to enjoy the same level of care that he and members of Congress enjoy. You have no more chance of getting that under Obamacare than you do of being invited to play golf with the President or flying to Paris with Michelle to buy shoes

For the hoi polloi (i.e. you and me), USPSTF guidelines and government-imposed rationing will determine the quality and quantity of care. That's why the opponents of government-run health care use the term Obamacare in the pejorative sense. We believe it's a system that will benefit the ruling class to which Obama belongs and render life shorter and more painful for the rest of us. And, as the President succinctly put it, we're right.

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Don't know how true this is but.... see for yourself.  You make the call... Warph


Michelle Obama Caught Giving Her Dog A Prostate Exam
by Bryan Blake - on Jun 15th 2012
http://dailybleach.com/michelle-obama-caught-giving-her-dog-a-prostate-exam/



Washington D.C. – After months and months of embarrassing situations for The President himself, chalk up the latest "face palm" for Obama to his health Nazi and Ru Paul look-a-like wife, Michelle. Today Mrs. Obama was caught sticking her finger up her obviously uncomfortable dog's rectum, trying to check his prostate. I guess besides telling you what your kids can and can't eat, Michelle is now diving into the study of house pets so she can divulge a plan to take control of how you raise your hairy family member. I'm sure in the following weeks Michelle will be whispering commands into the ear of her puppet husband to propose some anti-American bill to force pet owners to have their pet's given a monthly prostate exams at hand picked vet offices and on the tax payer's dime. I'm sure any non tax paying citizens will get the service free. The President and his wife would not comment on this situation.

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Does the Left Really Care About Gay Marriage?
By Aaron Goldstein on 8.8.12 @ 6:08AM

Only if it's a white conservative Christian who opposes it. Otherwise...

It has been almost exactly four years to the day since Barack Obama attended Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Forum. You may recall that during this forum, candidate Obama said, "I believe marriage is the union between a man and a woman."

Remember the hue and cry that followed from outraged liberals and progressives?

Well, of course you don't.

The reason you don't remember is that there wasn't any outrage from the Left concerning Obama's position on gay marriage. If anything, the Left loved Obama even more.

Ellen DeGeneres didn't see fit to question Obama on gay marriage during an October 2008 appearance on her show via satellite. Instead, Ellen grilled him on such pressing matters of state such as Halloween, George Clooney, and dancing. Let's just say that Ellen didn't give John McCain the kid glove treatment even though his position on gay marriage was exactly that of Obama's. And if not for Vice President Biden's loose lips, Obama's public position on gay marriage in 2012 would have been the same as it was in 2008 and, for that matter, the same as it was during much of 2012. I submit that if President Obama still maintained that marriage was between a man and a woman that he would not lose a single liberal or progressive vote. Did the Left ever give Dick Cheney props for supporting gay marriage before his distant cousin President Obama? When push comes to shove, the Left doesn't really care about gay marriage all that much.

This, of course, isn't to say the Left doesn't care about gay marriage at all. The Left certainly cares about gay marriage when it's a white, Christian conservative who says marriage is between a man and a woman. If said white, Christian conservative happens to own a successful chicken restaurant franchise, then the Left sees fit to deploy tar and feathers. This tarring and feathering has taken the form of liberal mayors telling Chick-fil-A not to come to their town, Chick-fil-As being defaced with graffiti, and Chick-fil-A employees being berated by customers with an insatiable appetite for liberal tolerance.

Yet in the midst of all this tarring and feathering of Chick-fil-A, a campaign in favor of traditional marriage was launched with little fanfare at the National Press Club last week. This campaign was launched by the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP). Its president, Reverend William Owens, stated, "The time has come for a broad-based assault against the power that be that wants to change our culture to one of men marrying men and women marrying women."

If you think about it, Reverend Owens's remarks aren't all that different from those of Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy. Yet you don't see liberal mayors telling black churches they aren't welcome in their towns for opposing gay marriage. You don't see black churches being defaced with graffiti nor do you see supporters of gay marriage accosting parishioners with phone cameras in tow for belonging to houses of worship that oppose gay marriage. I mean, how many same sex couples who kissed in front of a Chick-fil-A tried to pull the same stunt in front of a church in Compton after African-Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of California's Proposition 8 in 2008? Or what about kissing in front of a mosque? The Islamic Society of Boston built a mosque with money from Sheikh Yusuf Abdullah al-Qardawi and has been inspired by his teachings. Amongst the Sheikh's teachings are that homosexuals should be burned or thrown from a high place. It could explain why same sex couples wouldn't be inclined to public displays of affection in front of a mosque.

As committed as the Left is about gay marriage; it is far more committed to maintaining appearances and not wanting to be accused of racism. When it comes down to it, race trumps sexual orientation (and everything else). This explains why the Left gives a pass to African-American pastors who oppose same sex marriage. This is why the Left gave a pass to Barack Obama for opposing gay marriage in 2008 and would have done so again in 2012 if not for his "evolution." The Left doesn't care as much about gay marriage as it does about re-electing President Obama.

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By now it's obvious that Obuma realizes the only way he can be re-elected is for people to ignore his record and to focus, instead, on Romney's negatives.  So it is that Obuma is constantly reminding voters that Romney is a rich guy.  Fortunately, that's a strategy fraught with problems.  For one thing, Obuma is a millionaire.  So are such left-wing politicians as Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid.  And while it's true that Romney is richer than they are, the Clintons are worth well over a hundred million dollars, while John and Teresa Kerry could buy and sell the Romneys.

In fact, considering how wealth-conscious liberals are, I find it odd that they never held their family fortune against John, Ted or Bobby Kennedy.  And that was a fortune built the old-fashioned way, through bootlegging.

                                                               

When it comes to hypocrisy, probably nothing compares to international groups such as the U.N. and the Global Counterterrorism Forum.  The GCF is comprised of 30 nations, co-chaired by the United States and Turkey.  Its purpose is to bring together those nations that have suffered terrorist attacks in an attempt to prevent and punish those responsible.  The problem is that because Islamic Turkey doesn't like Israel, Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma and Hillary Clinton have agreed to exclude the Jewish state, in spite of the fact that it has suffered more terrorist attacks and, aside from the U.S., done more to combat terrorism than the other 29 nations combined.  This is the same Turkey, by the way, that was behind the so-called "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" that set out to provoke an armed response by attempting to run the Israeli blockade and provide Hamas with weaponry.

This is also the same American president and secretary of state... let us not forget.... who are always claiming to be Israel's friend and ally, at least when election times roll around.  In the meantime, however, these are the same two people who condemn the Israelis for building apartment houses in Jerusalem and for defending themselves against relentless missile attacks.  With friends like these, Israel, as the old saying goes, doesn't have to go looking for enemies.

Finally, for those of us who regard Obuma's voice as the biggest drone in America's arsenal, one of the great things about a Romney victory is that it will totally shock the egomaniacal Obuma and render him speechless.

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Liberals, Progressives and Socialists
By Walter E. Williams
8/8/2012


In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people.

Here's my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned but not those of socialism and communism? What goes untaught -- and possibly is covered up -- is that socialist and communist ideas have produced the greatest evil in mankind's history. You say, "Williams, what in the world are you talking about? Socialists, communists and their fellow travelers, such as the Wall Street occupiers supported by our president, care about the little guy in his struggle for a fair shake! They're trying to promote social justice." Let's look at some of the history of socialism and communism.

What's not appreciated is that Nazism is a form of socialism. In fact, the term Nazi stands for the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The unspeakable acts of Adolf Hitler's Nazis pale in comparison to the horrors committed by the communists in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China. Between 1917 and 1987, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and their successors murdered and were otherwise responsible for the deaths of 62 million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, China's communists, led by Mao Zedong and his successors, murdered and were otherwise responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese. The most authoritative tally of history's most murderous regimes is documented on University of Hawaii Professor Rudolph J. Rummel's website here, and in his book "Death by Government."

How much hunting down and punishment have there been for these communist murderers? To the contrary, it's acceptable both in Europe and in the U.S. to hoist and march under the former USSR's red flag emblazoned with a hammer and sickle. Mao Zedong has long been admired by academics and leftists across our country, as they often marched around singing the praises of Mao and waving his little red book, "Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung." President Barack Obama's communications director, Anita Dunn, in her June 2009 commencement address to St. Andrews Episcopal High School at Washington National Cathedral, said Mao was one of her heroes.

Whether it's the academic community, the media elite, stalwarts of the Democratic Party or organizations such as the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, Green for All, the Sierra Club and the Children's Defense Fund, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism -- a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined.

Today's leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from those of Nazi, Soviet and Maoist mass murderers. One does not have to be in favor of death camps or wars of conquest to be a tyrant. The only requirement is that one has to believe in the primacy of the state over individual rights.

The unspeakable horrors of Nazism didn't happen overnight. They were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for "social justice." It was decent but misguided earlier generations of Germans -- who would have cringed at the thought of genocide -- who created the Trojan horse for Hitler's ascendancy. Today's Americans are similarly accepting the massive consolidation of power in Washington in the name of social justice.

If you don't believe it, just ask yourself: Which way are we headed tiny steps at a time -- toward greater liberty or toward more government control over our lives?

Perhaps we think that we are better human beings than the German people who created the conditions that brought Hitler to power. I say, don't count on it.

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Posted by: CNN White House Producer Adam Aigner-Treworgy:

http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/08/obama-camp-has-history-with-star-of-new-super-pac-ad/

       

Obama camp has history with star (Joe Soptic) of new Super PAC ad

CNN - Representatives from the Obama campaign tried to distance themselves on Wednesday from a new ad released by the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA that links actions taken by Bain Capital to the death of former steelworker Joe Soptic's wife.

Aboard Air Force One, campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters that the campaign had "no involvement with any ads that are done by Priorities USA."

"We don't have any knowledge of the story of the family," Psaki said when asked about Soptic's story.

On CNN's Early Start Wednesday morning, Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter also denied that she knew the details of Soptic's story.

"Well, you do know that we don't have anything to do with Priorities USA," Cutter told CNN's John Berman. "That by law, we're not allowed to coordinate with them, and by law we don't have anything to do with their ads. I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died."

But in an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Soptic said that the campaign had asked him to appear at events on behalf of the president to talk about his experiences with Bain."I was asked to fly to some of the battleground states, but I have been unable to do that," Soptic said in a phone call.

On a May 14 Obama campaign conference call featuring both Soptic and Cutter, he even told an almost identical story to the one he tells in the new Super PAC ad.

In the ad Soptic claims that when Bain shut down the Kansas City steel mill where he had worked for nearly 30 years, his family lost their health insurance. His wife Ilyona became ill "a short time after," and he says in the ad, "I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew that we couldn't afford the insurance."

He then describes taking his wife to the county hospital only to discover that she had cancer.

"She passed away in 22 days," Soptic says.

On the conference call, Soptic phrased his story this way:

"After we lost our jobs, we found out that we were going to lose our health insurance, and that our pensions hadn't been funded like Bain promised they would be. I was lucky to find another job as a custodian in a local school district. They gave me some health insurance, but I couldn't afford to buy it for my wife. A little while later she was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had to put her in a county hospital because she didn't have health care, and when the cancer took her away, all I got was an enormous bill. That put a lot of stress on me. I thought I'd be paying it off until I died myself. That probably wouldn't have happened if Bain kept its promise and I was allowed to keep our health insurance. I know it wouldn't have happened if I still had my old job at the steel mill. Its upsetting what Mitt Romney and his partners did to us here in Kansas City."

At the end of his remarks, Soptic turns the call back over to Cutter.

"We really appreciate you sharing your experiences," Cutter said.

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Team Obama Caught Planting Veterans
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/stunner-obama-s-3-surprised-veterans-at-portland-diner-were-likely-plants/


Busted... Team O Plants 3 "Surprised" Veterans at Out-of-the-Way Diner to Speak With Obama – Then Releases Their Bios

What a coincidence! Obama just happened to find three friendly veterans in a booth at a Portland diner this week.
It was a "surprise stop."

         

          
PORTLAND, OREGON – June 24, 2012 – President Barack Obama visited Portland Tuesday greeting diners Mark Peterson, center, and Thomas Foeller, right, at the Gateway Breakfast House in an unschedueld stop on the way to fundraisers at the Oregon Convention Center. Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian.

But then the truth came out—-
The three veterans were not regulars. They were plants from the Obama Election Campaign
They just happened to be sitting in a booth at the diner when Obama popped in.

    "No, they were not regulars." The waitress who served President Obama, Mary, told me the veterans with whom the President discussed "health care" were not regulars. "Well, maybe one of the guys came in here before..."
In fact, the Obama Campaign even had a copy of their bios on hand.
And, one of the veterans just happens to be an Obama for America volunteer!

The roundtable participants, as provided by the campaign:

-Dean Dilley from Portland
Dean enlisted in the U.S. Army 1972 when he was 20 years old. He served for three years, from 1972-1975 as a supply specialist. He retired from American Honda Motor Company in 2009, where he worked as a stock and material handler and is currently a volunteer for Obama for America.

Dean says that health care is the issue that is most important to him, particularly as he is getting older. He is also focused on veterans-related issues and says he is grateful for the President's commitment to supporting veterans like himself.

-Mark Peterson from Portland
Mark is a retired veteran. He served in the Air Force and Air National Guard for 27 years, from 1966 – 1993. In the Air Force, he was rated as a Navigator and flew B-52s as an Electronic Warfare Officer and in the Air National Guard he was a Weapons System Officer in F-4s and F-101s. Following his service he worked as a CPA, and retired around 2006.

Mark is focused on health care and foreign policy. He is thankful for his military benefits and Medicare coverage, but as the father of two disabled children, he knows a lot of people who have had problems with coverage, so he knows how important it is to have access to quality, affordable health care.

-Thomas Foeller from Oak Grove
Tom is a retired Vietnam War era veteran. He enlisted in the Navy Reserves in 1967 during his junior year at Portland State University because he wanted to serve his country. He left the Navy Reserves as a lieutenant in 1976. He served for a total of nine years; four of those were active duty. He was a member of the Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit and spent six months stationed in Japan, then six months in Guam while on call to deploy to Vietnam. His unit never received the call to deploy.

Tom retried from a career in the housing industry six years ago. At the time of his retirement, Tom was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer, during a routine physical. He believes that had the Affordable Care Act – and the emphasis on preventative care – been in place a decade or two ago, he would have caught his cancer earlier and could have saved tens of thousands of dollars in healthcare costs.

What a complete surprise.
It was all manufactured – just for Obama.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl has more on this manufactured media story.
Here's a report via Oregon Live:
http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2012/07/three_portland_area_veterans_a.html

All have connections to the Obama reelection campaign and were presumably chosen for good political reasons.

None of the three vets knew each other before being chosen by the Obama campaign to meet with the president.

Dilley, 60, who served in the Army for three years and worked for Honda until retiring in 2009, said he has done a little voter registration work for the campaign.  But he said he thinks he came to the campaign's attention when he called a couple of months ago asking if he could talk to the president about veterans issues.

"I never expected it to happen," Dilley added with a laugh.

Foeller, who said he's mostly active in a group fighting colorectal cancer, said he's also done some volunteer work for the Obama campaign.  And Peterson said his wife volunteers for the campaign.

On Tuesday morning, all three met with a staffer and were driven to the restaurant and arrived shortly before Obama.  The three said the restaurant workers and other patrons received notice only a few minutes before the president arrived.

Foeller and Dilley said Obama ate half of a cheese sandwich and skipped the ham in his split pea soup.  "He's a pretty tall and slender guy," said Dilley.  "Maybe that's why."



UPDATE: Reportedly, the veterans declined to go on the air today with a conservative host.
http://victoriataftkpam.blogspot.com/2012/07/transparency-obama-staff-urge-diner.html

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-campaign/2012/07/25/team-obama-caught-planting-veterans#ixzz233KFsfiE

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Charles Krauthammer: Obama Camp 'Jumped the Shark' Today

                                 

Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the attack by the Obama administration  against Mitt Romney.  Romney was accused of being a 'Felon' regarding the timing of his departure from Bain Capital.

"I think the charges up to now that he's a guy who doesn't care, he outsources was an effect. But when you get the Obama campaign accusing him of being a felon, you've jumped the shark. You can say a lot of stuff about Mitt Romney. Unfeeling, out of touch, stiff, but a felon he's not. I mean, he's a guy who not only doesn't have a skeleton in his closet, he doesn't have a closet. He's as clean as they come,"

"So when they accuse him of deliberately lying to the SEC and committing a felony, they are then retroactively questioning all the series of charges up to that. That's jumping the shark." 

                                           

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Step one - The Obama campaign claims no knowledge of Joe Soptic's story while refusing to denounce a shockingly offensive and false political ad produced by their former colleague's pro-Obama SuperPAC:

Asked about the Priorities spot on MSNBC Wednesday morning, Robert Gibbs said he doesn't "know the specifics" while Stephanie Cutter said on CNN: "I don't know the facts about when Mr. Soptic's wife got sick or the facts about his health insurance." And Jen Psaki told reporters on Air Force One that "we don't' have any knowledge of the story of the family."

Step two - The coordinated lie goes down in flames:

But Cutter hosted an Obama campaign conference call in May in which Soptic told reporters the very story featured in the Priorities spot. Both the campaign and the Priorities USA Action said there was no coordination about Soptic's appearances. In the campaign's ad, Soptic speaks only about the plant. In the Priorities spot, he tells the personal story he relayed during the Obama campaign conference call. On the May 14 Obama campaign call, Soptic detailed his wife's illness and death.


Update:  Guess who was running Bain Capital when Mr. Soptic was laid off? A major Obama fundraiser by the name of Jonathan Lavine .

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/oops-obamas-top-bundler-jonathan-lavine-was-in-charge-of-bain-during-gst-steel-layoffs/

Oops!... Obama's Top Bundler Jonathan Lavine Was In Charge of Bain During GST Steel Layoffs
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 5:43 AM  

The Obama campaign has been blaming Mitt Romney for the failure of the GST Steel Company in 2001, conveniently ignoring the fact that Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, which had taken over GST, in 1999. This in itself is a dishonest attack, which will surprise no one, but it gets even more egregious when coupled with this salient fact: one of Barack Obama's top bundlers, Jonathan Lavine, managing director at Bain, who has bundled between $100,000 and $200,000 in contributions for the 2012 Obama Victory Fund, was one of the guys running Bain when GST went belly-up.


It will be hard for Obama to knock Romney on steel; when Romney was at Bain in 1994, he helped launch Steel Dynamics, which currently employs over 6,000 people. When it comes to investment choice and American job creation, Obama is simply no match for Romney.


Photo: Obama and top Democrat campaign bundler
Jonathan Lavine from Bain Capital.
         


The Obama campaign blamed Governor Mitt Romney for the demise of GST Steel company in a video they released in May. The plant closed in 2001. Mitt left Bain in 1999.

For some reason the Obama camp forgot to mention this...
Obama's top bundler Jonathan Lavine was in charge of Bain during the BST layoffs.

Chuck Slowe reported:Blaming Governor Romney for any issues surrounding the failure of GST is wrong and it is a blatant lie. Mitt Romney had been long gone when the company started to fail and subsequently closed it doors. When are the President and his campaign hacks going to get the story correct? When are they going to get back to their economy and its dreadful condition? Mr. President, you can run but you cannot hide.

It turns out that Jonathan Lavine, current Obama bundler, was actually in charge, at Bain, during that period, when the layoffs occurred. Oops, that isn't right, is it? Yes, that story is the one that needs to be reported on. Sorry Mr. President, your lies are just getting to be more than many of us are able to handle.

And, Jonathan Lavine is not your average Obama Bain donor. Lavine is one of Barack Obama's top bundlers.

ABC reported:
While Democrats assail presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's Bain Capital business practices, Republicans note that President Obama has not been bashful about accepting cash from Bain executives or other high-profile figures in the corporate buyout business...

...One of Obama's top campaign financiers – Jonathan Lavine – is also managing director at Bain, bundling between $100,000 and $200,000 in contributions for the 2012 Obama Victory Fund, according to estimates released by the Obama campaign. The president has also relied on other leading figures in the private equity sector as hosts for high-dollar fundraisers and as members of his Jobs Council.[/font][/size]

Maybe someday the liberal media will report on this.

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http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2012/08/08/new_obama_slogan_from_one_many

New Obama Slogan: From One, Many
By Ben Shapiro
8/8/2012

President Obama is my president. He's not illegitimate. He's not a usurper. He was duly elected by my fellow citizens -- and as much as I think he's a horrible commander-in-chief with anti-American ideals, that's the choice Americans made in 2008.

But by the same token, President Obama isn't my president. He isn't doing anything for me, the typical, faceless American citizen. I'm not a member of a minority group -- at least a minority group that counts (being Jewish obviously doesn't count when it comes to Obama's giveaway grab bag). I'm not a welfare case, and I'm employed. I'm not a member of a public sector union.

And so I don't count when it comes to President Obama.

President Obama's entire re-election campaign -- and, thus far, his entire presidency -- has been predicated on appealing to various splinter groups within the American population. He isn't interested in presenting broad policy initiatives that appeal to the vast swath of Americans; in fact, his one major policy initiative, Obamacare, bombed with the American public so badly that the Democrats were unceremoniously thrown from Congress in 2010.

That's why Obama finds himself on the defensive with regard to his polarizing campaign tactics. In an interview with Black Enterprise magazine, Obama said, "I want all Americans to have opportunity. I'm not the president of black America. I'm the president of the United States of America." But that's not what he says on his campaign website, where he breaks down Americans by color, including a subgroup of African-Americans for Obama, where he pushes posters urging blacks to "get his back" -- just $35 to show your support!

Obama's website also offers groups for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Jewish Americans (well, liberal Jewish Americans), Latinos, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgenders, people with disabilities, small business owners (all two of them who support Obama), seniors, women, and young Americans, among others.

Obama sees America as a country of differences papered over with the flag; Americans, by contrast, have historically seen America as a country of different folks united by dreams, goals and principles. To Obama, unity is aesthetic, an idea to be photoshopped to the front of a campaign brochure. To Americans, unity is engraved on our coinage.

But that fundamental difference in perspective has yet to manifest itself in this campaign. Americans seem to want to take Obama at his word. They don't understand that his campaign philosophy of 2008 is worlds apart from his campaign philosophy of 2012. He has failed as a universal president -- a president whose rising tide has lifted all boats. His only success must spring from his particularism. He must deconstruct his "all things to all people" persona in order to appeal to any one particular group.

But Obama's enigmatic persona means that there's no there there. He hasn't offered enough to any one group to qualify as a representative member. His answer to Black Enterprise came in response to a question about whether he's done enough for the black community. And he hasn't. But he can only campaign as a black candidate or a gay candidate or a Latino candidate or a whatever-he-is-this-week candidate.

And that just won't fly. Because, to paraphrase a famously unifying politician of the recent past, we're not black states and white states, gay states and straight states -- we're the United States. Even if our president seems to like us better scattered and disunited.