Something to remember

Also, despite everyone, including me, hammering Obama’s lack of experience, or those making fun of Palin being the choice for Veep…

Article Two of the United States Constitution sets the principal qualifications to be eligible for election as President. A Presidential candidate must:

* be a natural-born citizen of the United States;
* be at least thirty-five years old;
* have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.

Additionally, the Constitution disqualifies some people from the Presidency. Under Article One of the United States Constitution, the Senate has the option, upon conviction, of disqualifying impeached individuals from holding other federal offices, including the Presidency.[4] Under the Twenty-Second Amendment, no one can be elected President more than twice. The Twenty-Second Amendment also specifies that anyone who serves more than two years as President or Acting President, of a term for which someone else was elected President, can only be elected President once. Under the Twelfth Amendment a person who is no longer eligible to be President may not be Vice President either.

It says nothing about having to be a governor, nothing about needing executive experience, nothing about having to be an elected official prior to running for POTUS.

Just limits on who can be and how long they can be…

Who is to blame?

Sounds to me like Barney Frank and the Democrats should keep their fingerpointing to themselves.

Guilt By Participation: Obama and Ayers

The WSJ has a look at the radical Bill Ayers/Barack Obama connection. They aren’t just passing friends, they worked hard together in Obama’s earlier years to help make schools more radical. Here is an exerpt:

Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

Bill Ayers.

The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama’s first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers’s home.

The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.” Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I’ve recently spent days looking through them.

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago’s public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation’s other key body, the “Collaborative,” which shaped education policy.

The CAC’s basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.

One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama’s “recruitment” to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.

Ed Morrissey says: “Ayers wanted teachers trained to instruct against “oppression” and to push schoolchildren towards political beliefs Ayers valued — apparently valuing them higher than actual education. Barack Obama agreed, and for several years worked in close partnership with Ayers to implement that educational policy. Even had Ayers never tossed a single bomb, this kind of educational philosophy would likely raise eyebrows with most parents, who desire a real education for their children and not some sort of political indoctrination camp. . . . What does that say about Obama’s idea of mainstream, as he has repeatedly described Ayers and Dohrn?”

That’s what I want to know? What exactly is mainstream in Obama’s opinion? So far, he seems quite radical to me. You know why he can’t articulate well without a teleprompter…because he doesn’t want middle America to know what he really thinks and feels. He’s saving that for after he wins and lucky for most of us, he’s not going to win.

Americans aren’t that stupid.

White Privilege?

This blog post gives us what he considers easy examples of white privilege.

I’m just amazed by the examples he gives. It appears that defending a white woman, her family and her career from unfair attacks and down right lies means she is living the life of white privilege and questioning a black man’s experience to be president is somehow unfair and racist.

Big shock!

Tax Cuts

My biggest peeve with Obama lately is his claim that he will give 95% of American a tax cut.

THAT IS SUCH CRAP!

How pray tell can you give a tax cut to 95% of Americans when only 70% of them actually pay taxes?

Please someone enlighten us, I beg of you!!!

Bailouts

What do you think of the government using our tax dollars to bail out these large corporations like Fannie May, Freddie Mac and now AIM?

I’m split on the idea. I’m mostly against it. I can understand the merits of it, I really can.  But ultimately it was poor business practices, greed and shitty govt oversight that caused this mess and I’m annoyed that we the tax payers have to pay for it.

New Baby

My niece Alexia was born today, 3 weeks early. And thank goodness because even 3 weeks early she was still over 11lbs!!!!!

As soon as I can figure out uploads – I’ll post the new pics!

Double Standards

Charlie Gibson interviewed Obama a while back and recently he interviewed Sarah Palin. Here is a list of questions he “fired ” at Obama versus the ones he used on Palin.

Obama interview:

How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin interview:

Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

See a liberal bias? I know, I know…there is no liberal bias. They always ask the possible future VP tougher questions than the possible future POTUS. I mean everyone knows the VP has the “tougher” job, right?

The Amazing Obama

143 Days?? That is how many days out of 356 that Obama was present at his current JOB as a U.S. Senator before deciding to be POTUS. For those of you who have trouble with math, that means he was absent 213 days or 60% of the time. If you were absent 60% of the time – would you still be employed? Union employees don’t bother to answer, we know you would…

Via WEB Commentary:

Senate records reveal that the Amazing Mr. Obama has been in the US Senate since Jan. 4, 2005 ( the date of his inauguration).

They further show that although the Senate had been in session 356 days in 2005 and 2006, the Amazing Mr. Obama had only been present 143 days before he decided to form a Presidential Exploratory Committee in January of 2007. This is experience?
The Amazing Mr. Obama since Jan. 4 2005 sponsored 136 bills of which 122 haven’t made it out of committee, BUT only 2 were successfully enacted. He must have a very busy staff.

The Amazing Mr. Obama�s sponsored bills that passed the Senate included:

S.Con.Res. 25: A concurrent resolution condemning the recent violent actions of the Government of Zimbabwe against peaceful opposition party activists and members of civil society. Jun 26, 2007

S.Res. 600: A resolution commemorating the 44th anniversary of the deaths of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while working in the name of American democracy to register voters and secure civil rights during the summer of 1964, which has become known as “Freedom Summer”. Jun 24, 2008

S.Res. 268: A resolution designating July 12, 2007, as “National Summer Learning Day”. Jul 13, 2007

S.Res. 133: A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson. Mar 28, 2007

I hope the Illinois voters that paid his $165,000 a year salary, plus perks got their monies worth.

Maybe he should talk more about being a Community Leader afterall…

Obama Releases A New Attack Ad

I’m glad to see that Obama is exactly what I always expected – a politician. Not a “new” anything. His camp attacked Hillary and now they are attacking Palin and McCain.

This is what he mean by “hope and Change”? Yeah, you can hope but he’s not changing crap!

Politics is a dirty business and Obama is just another same old, same old politician. At least, McCain didn’t try to claim to be a morally superior campaigner and now it isn’t McCain that looks like a big, fat liar!