Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:20:12 AM
The Washington Examiner (Drudge, Dec. 29) itemizes approximately $1,450,000 in costs for Obama’s Christmas vacation in Hawaii. I haven’t heard or read any criticism of his vacation (or other vacations) on major media. I remember how they would criticize President Bush for taking his vacations on his home ranch in Texas. That is easy to understand. The press corps would much rather have an expense paid trip to Hawaii and stay in luxury hotels to accompany the President than to go to Texas and stay in a small town where a good meal could be have for four or five dollars and motels were similarly priced.
Napolitano, Obama’s director of Homeland Security visited Afghanistan over Christmas to advise Afghans on establishing a secure border with Pakistan. Consider her success in keeping illegal immigrants and terrorists from entering the United States via the porous border with Mexico, the Taliban should welcome her advice to the Afghan government.
Obama gave an interesting State of the Union address. It was glorious, arousing and forward looking – as long as the listener didn’t think. It is difficult for me to understand how he is going to “freeze” government spending while providing more money to education, highway construction, light rail systems and other projects.
More interesting, and logically consistent, to me was Congresswoman Bachmann’s reply. I highly recommend that anyone reading this look up her speech on Google. Her speech made me decide to begin looking over her actions as a potential Republican Presidential candidate. I expect that the press and the major television news media will begin searching for into any “sins” in her background. They can always make some up, as they have with Palin, if they can’t find any real problems. Remember the insinuations that Palin’s fourteen year old daughter was hoping for sex with some ball player? Or was her disabled child was really hers? Maybe Bachman eats beef – consider the fate of those poor cows. After all, how does this differ from Palin eating elk or moose? They will probably insist that she produce her birth certificate and school records, as they did of Bush. And Obama?
I have noted that the New York Times is heralding Romney as the leading candidate for the Republican contender for the Presidency. They liked McCain also. It is interesting how the liberal press always touts for the Republican contender most likely to lose. That can’t possibly, of course, be deliberate. To claim it was deliberate would suggest they were capable of thought.
I see that Mr. Gore is now saying “global warming” is responsible for the blizzards that are crippling the United States from Texas to Maine. Just a few years ago his Democratic friends in the Senate were saying that global warming was responsible for the LACK of snow. Why not? Memories are short and a lot of money has been made and is being made off of global warming – tax payer money of course.
I have always been a fan of Newt Gingrich, my bride hasn’t been – and isn’t (She doesn’t approve of men who cheat on their wives.) Having read an extensive article entitled “Professor Cornpone” in the Wall Street Journal (Monday, January 31, 2001), I have come to her opinion. Mr. Gingrich gave a speech in Iowa praising ethanol. Like Gore, he appears to be willing to support anything that might help his chances to be President. I should add that the Journal article doesn’t stop with his speech in Iowa; it brings up his voting record. He appears to be more of a good conservative Republican in speech than in action.
Some political leaders in Israel and Egypt have expressed surprise and accused President Obama of betraying President Mubarak of Egypt. Why the surprise? If I recall correctly, and I believe I do, the first person Obama “threw under the bus” was his white grandmother in Hawaii who raised him and paid for him to attend expensive private schools. The second was the “Reverend” Wright, whose church he attended for twenty years, helped him get elected and was proclaimed, by Obama, as his mentor and advisor. Michelle had best watch her step. On the other hand, she might know too much about Obama for him to seriously annoy her.