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The State of the Union
- A Response
January 22nd, 2012

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    You know...it was my intention to analyze President Obummer’s State of the
Union address Tuesday night.   I was going to start by saying it’s a good thing
I didn’t have something in my hand as I watched, because I might have a broken TV
right now.

    As I had predicted in a previous post, the address was a purely partisan, 100%
U.S.D.A. slab of BS.   A class warfare campaign speech masquerading as an address
to a joint session of Congress.

    Since he doesn’t have much that he can realistically brag about, I didn’t expect
him to say an awful lot about jobs and the economy.   Nor was I surprised that he
didn’t spend much time at all talking about his “signature achievement” -
Obummercare, which suggests that even he understands that government-run
healthcare isn’t very popular.

    But I was incensed that he had the gall to say “no bailouts,” particularly given
his support for TARP, the Dodd-Frank bailout bill, and the giveaway to GM and the
auto unions. (If the GM bailout is such a great success, I’d hate to see his definition
of failure.)

    And I was stunned that he could talk about the housing meltdown and mortgage
crisis with a straight face without mentioning the Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, or
Freddie Mac. That’s like analyzing World War II and pretending that Hitler’s Nazi
Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Tojo’s Japan didn’t even exist!

    But what got me the most was his attempt to credit his administration’s
“diplomacy” for stifling Iran and, encouraging the “Arab spring.”

    “Look at Iran. Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided
about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program now stands as one. The regime is more
isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions, and as long as
they shirk their responsibilities, this pressure will not relent. Let there be no doubt:
America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take
no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a peaceful resolution of this issue is
still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it
can rejoin the community of nations.”

    Tell that to the Red Chinese.   Obummer’s “diplomats” will still be talking when a
couple of nukes are going off in cities around the country and nuclear warheads are
flying over the Saudi's on the way to blow up Israel.)   We are dealing with people
just as ruthless and insane on their own power as the great murderers Hitler, Stalin
and Mao.

    So I felt like a lottery winner when I read the news report that Sam LaHood, the
son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and the head of the International
Republican Institute's (IRI) Cairo office, was prohibited from departing Egypt earlier
this week along with dozens of other Americans.   It seems they’d been placed on
an Egyptian "no-fly" list!   See the full news report here.

    The White House and State Department have acknowledged ongoing efforts to
try to resolve the matter.   But despite calls from President Obummer, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and, Deputy Secretary of
State Bill Burns having "very honest conversations with Egyptian leaders” it would
seem that Obummer’s best “diplomacy” is not making things get better, but making
“things get worse."

    Egyptian police raided the Cairo offices of IRI and several other Non-
Governmental Organizations (NGOs), including the U.S.-based National Democratic
Institute and Freedom House, confiscating records and computers. The raids were
ordered by the Egyptian prosecutors' office, which is investigating alleged foreign
funding of NGOs operating in the country.

    Ray LaHood, a former Illinois lawmaker, is the only Arab-American member of
Obummer's cabinet. So, it’s a fair assumption that his son is a high profile "target of
opportunity."

    "Suddenly Sam's name turned up in newspaper in Egypt, a few days after police
show up armed" at their office, Lorne Craner, the head of the IRI said. "He was the
first one on the no-fly list who happened to go out to the airport."

    LaHood is only one of many employees of the raided organizations who have
been asked to come in for long interrogation sessions with the Egyptian's prosecutor
office, Craner said. The employees on the no-fly list are a "subset" of those who
have been questioned.

    How ironic that Obummer’s Middle East “diplomacy” –as bragged about in his
State of the Union message- seems to be at the heart of Egyptian prosecutors
investigating whether NGOs receive foreign funding.   (Especially since the U.S.
government gives billions of dollars in military aid to Egypt and the IRI had been
officially invited to send international monitors to observe Egypt's recent parliament
elections.)

    And consider this: Egypt's military council accuses NGO’s of foreign funding even
though at least 20% of its budget - $1.3 billion - is foreign funded.

    Sorry, Obummer.   Some people simply can’t –or won’t- be appeased.   They
must be defeated.   And the sooner the better.   To paraphrase Lt Col Allen West,
“whenever I see an Obummer 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to
the human gene pool."

    I think he was talking about the “President”, too.

" We sleep safe in our beds
because rough men stand ready
in the night to visit violence on
those who would do us harm. "

--- George Orwell

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