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It is a diary, mostly by a former staffer in the Bush White House:
Bradley A. Blakeman, Former Deputy Assistant to President, George W. Bush

Take only 2 minutes to watch the comparison between George Bush's visit to the Marines vs Obama's recent trip. It is incredible! There is word this will be removed from You Tube so go now. Pass it around quickly. Send this to people as it may not last long on YouTube. OH! It is so good ....

Subject: Two Presidents Meet the Marines The Marines Show You How .... There's a 'message' in this video. You might want to view it ASAP as it's not likely to last very long on YouTube. Click for Bush Vs. Obama .

Rally Right

Our purpose is to unite, support, and train Americans who believe in rebuilding the strength of the Republican Party by returning to an unwavering faith in the Conservative values so wisely established under God by the Founding Fathers and so eloquently espoused in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

Obama’s Theorems - The people don’t believe any more

Health Care Goes Behind Closed Doors

Beginning last Wednesday and moving into next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senators Chris Dodd and Max Baucus, along with the president's top aides have sat at a table, seeking to reconcile the two competing health-care bills into one. Said House Minority Leader John Boehner, "This bill is being written in the dark of night...the president ought to keep his promise to the American people and open this process up."

American Business Leaders Snub Obama - Not seen on MSM

It is a video of American business leaders not willing to shake hands with Obama.
When originally presented, it was said to be Russian business leaders that snubbed Obama.
This has not been shown on ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS or other MSM. The look on Obama's face is priceless!

Watch this 10-second video where a lineup of leading business men refuse to
shake his hand. Did you see this on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or MSNBC?

This is "hard ball", Soviet Style. After the third handshake
refusal,,, it becomes obvious. The facial expression is priceless.
"I guess we're no longer in Chicago ".

And, how in the world did Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Diane Sawyer,
et al, miss this? If it had been Bush, think the media would cover it????
Anyone ever seen a Head of State snubbed like this? Speaks volumes.
It's gonna' be a rough ride, but the bloom is almost off the rose.

We are now in the middle of a bloodless coup

Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid know the clock is ticking in the matter of Obama's Constitutional legitimacy for the Presidency and that WE THE PEOPLE are waking to the reality that our country is being taken away and recast counter to the Founding Father's vision, our Heritage and culture, and the Rule of Law that our Nation has stood on from inception.

The Pajamas TV web site provides entertaining videos via e-mail subscription at www.pjtv.com. Click for Newsmax.com and frequent Dick Morris e-mail updates.

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The Cap and Trade Bill based on the false premise of Global Warming must be defeated! Click on this link HR 2454 Cap and Trade Bill and read the www.govtrak summary.

Read it and contact your Senator to stop this outrageous power grab which shows how these Socialistic/Marxist laws can ruin us all!
Click for Senator Lindsey Graham's folly. He supports Cap and Trade!

Doctors explain why they are against OBAMACARE

Doctors Will be 'Drafted' Under Public Option

A respected medical specialist has carefully reviewed the healthcare reform bill in the U.S. House, and he declares that it would amount to a virtual "draft" of doctors into the government's "public option" health insurance program.

Dr. Russell Blaylock, a renowned neurosurgeon, book author and editor of the Blaylock Wellness Report also warns that "death panels" could lead to the rationing of medical care to the elderly and a "violation of the Hippocratic Oath."

In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Dr. Blaylock points to other ominous provisions in the bill, HR 3200, which he says would:

Severely discourage the readmission of patients to a hospital after they have been treated, and punish doctors and hospitals if they do readmit them.

Require medical practitioners to document their dealings to the extent that they won't have enough time to adequately treat their patients.

Jeopardize the confidentiality of patients' medical records, including psychiatric reports.

The Senate's version of healthcare reform is slated to be voted on by the Finance Committee on Tuesday. But the House bill has already been approved by several committees and is sure to play a major role in any conference by the House and Senate to reconcile the bills those bodies pass.

Newsmax.TV's Ashley Martella noted that under the House bill, physicians would be drafted into the public option, a provision Dr. Blaylock has earlier called "conscription."

This bill "is virtually a draft because it says all physicians are automatically in the public option unless they opt out, and the opt out mechanism will be later determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services," Dr. Blaylock said.

"Well, we don't know how difficult it will be for physicians to opt out. Will there be penalties, fines, taxes, etc.? Because that's all left up to the Secretary."

He added on that score: "One of the things that concerns the legal minds of this country is that any bill that contains arbitrary language can be interpreted after it's passed any way they want to. And in this bill, virtually every page gives arbitrary powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services."

Blaylock warned that under the House bill, hospital readmissions will be very restricted.

"One of the things they targeted to save money was to punish hospitals and physicians if they readmit a patient within a month of them being treated in an emergency room," he said.

"The effect of that is going to be that doctors are not going to want to treat these patients, hospitals are not going to want to treat these patients. It's going to cost hospitals a considerable amount of money as well as the physicians in fines if a patient comes back readmitted.

"Now the people who are going to be readmitted are people with chronic illnesses, the elderly, the disabled. Those are the people who are going to have complications occur within that month period. And why should hospitals and physicians be punished for that?

"They're not going to want to treat these patients. They're going to want to refer them quickly to another facility. And that's one of the biggest problems we have, patients being bounced around."

Martella asked about a controversial provision in the bill for so-called end of life counseling, which critics have charged would set up "death panels."

"This caused a lot of controversy, on so-called death panels and whether this advanced healthcare planning was actually required," Dr. Blaylock said.

"But it says very specifically on pages 424 through 428 that these sessions will be part of the normal medical practice. Therefore it's not voluntary.

"So every patient of a certain age will have to undergo this counseling. And further, in really frightening language, this bill [stipulates] that the people doing the counseling will be specially trained and approved by the federal government. They'll supply films, brochures, pamphlets — the data the patients are being exposed to.

"If you look at a lot of this literature now, what it says is that these patients will be encouraged to end their life early rather than take extraordinary medical treatments.

"For instance, if you're 65, 70 years old and you have congestive heart failure, in their view you really should make the decision that you don't want any further treatment, that it would be best for you and your family.

"And if you couch it that way you can convince a lot of patients through guilt that they really shouldn't be spending the money that it's going to cost their family as well as the country at large. So this is a very dangerous precedent. This is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath...

"But then the health czar, Ezekiel Emanuel, has said that physicians are too obsessed with this Hippocratic Oath. And if you read his papers on this subject, he clearly states that the elderly should just make the decision that they don't want any further treatment and go ahead and meet their end.

"The Hastings Center that he writes for, and that he's on the advisory panel for, clearly [states] that patients need to just reject any kind of extraordinary healthcare, or just ordinary healthcare, and accept that they're going to die. To me that is under the definition of a death panel.

"If you look at the socialist countries, for instance National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union, they had very similar policies. They just didn't treat these people."

Dr. Blaylock is also concerned about the huge amount of paperwork the bill would require from medical practitioners.

"Those of us who have practiced medicine for a lot of years know that in the last 15 years, progressively, there's been so many requirements for the reporting of virtually everything," he said.

"This bill expands it enormously, so that physicians are not going to have time to do patient care to the extent that they should. They're not going to be able to follow up on their post-graduation education or attend seminars, because they're going to spend time documenting everything.

"They have to document any interaction with any federal bureaucracy or any other entity that they contract with. They have to determine whether there's a fraud risk. They're fined if fraud is found later, even though they're just referring a patient to an outpatient facility. They have to do quality assessments continuously.

"Now that's going to cause doctors to spend enormous amounts of time documenting all this and I don't see how they can even do it. The paperwork is absolutely enormous."

Martella asked if that record-keeping would encroach on doctor-patient confidentiality.

"Certainly. Whether you use patient code, patient names, all that is to be determined later. None of that is spelled out in this bill. So it has the potential, particularly in regard to the financial records that have to be supplied, of putting at risk your financial data, your medical data, if you've seen a psychiatrist, if you've had any kind of infectious disease that you don't want anyone to know about."

Under the bill, "all this information is available to a lot of eyes at every level and all sorts of bureaucracies, and it can leak out."

Obama's First Six Months' Accomplishments

1. Offended the Queen of England
2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia
3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega
4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek
5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia
6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras
7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions while they're building their nuclear weapons
8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions
9. Expanded the bailouts
10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian
11. Quadrupled our national debt
12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an ICBM
13. Released information on U.S. Intelligence gathering despite urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA directors
14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after they couldn't take the heat
15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."
16. Ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used and instead refers to such acts as "man made disasters."
17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America’s world leadership
18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was because of us
19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from the Department of Commerce
20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States
21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial for "torturing" three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up their noses
22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City that frightened thousands of New Yorkers
23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims
24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with terrorist Hamas against Israel
25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer billions in the process
26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American industry even less competitive while costing homeowners thousands per year
27. Announced nationalized health care "reform" that will strip seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't

Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die."

If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it.

Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and four months where we can reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies.

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Dealing from the Bottom of the deck, The Race Card

Obama and the End of White Guilt

Barack Obama portrayed himself as America’s first “post-racial” president, yet he and his supporters continue to play the race card against ordinary Americans who oppose him. Despite a big election victory, Obama is unable to understand that ordinary Americans do not like being bullied. Nor does he understand that they do not like being called racists for political disagreements.

The Obama agenda is desperate and out of ideas. In their desperation, they deal from the bottom of the deck. The race card has never failed them before, and when the logic of their position fails, evoking racism always ends the discussion. Unfortunately for them, this time the discussion will not end. The more they smear everyday Americans with the charge of racism, the more meaningless the accusation becomes.

In the wake of town halls, tea parties and 9/12 protests against Obama’s policies, many media pundits—Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, and Newsweek Magazine, to name a few—have branded these patriotic Americans as racists. It is appalling to think that the Left has played this game for decades. Americans of all backgrounds have fought for Civil Rights for too long to have accusations of racism used in such an offhand manner.

Among the many who voted for Obama, there is a growing sense that they have been had. The idea of electing an African-American for president intrigued them. Many voted for Obama with the belief that he was sincere about ending partisan and racial animosities. They believed that he was a new and transformative figure in Washington.

That was then. Now people are wise to his ways and do not like what they see. From runaway deficit spending, to a sputtering economy, to cap and trade, to weak foreign policy, the list of policy failures goes on. The more Obama speaks about his health plan, the more people do not want it. His magical spell may still work in Oslo for a Nobel Prize, but with the public over here, it is gone.

Even with 60 Democrat votes in the Senate, it is doubtful whether Obama will get a health plan passed. He is fading in the polls because everyone knows that his speeches are just words and don’t mean anything. It is all a smokescreen to obscure his true agenda of restricting personal freedoms and imposing ever-greater state control.

The Obama presidency is destined to fail due to his doctrine-over-practicality approach to politics, and the impossibility of his plans to succeed. And just as people aren’t buying into Obama’s policies, people just aren’t buying into blind charges of racism either.

Obama and his allies are overplaying the race card so often and so wantonly that such accusations no longer have much meaning. The irony of Obama’s presidency is that the demon of white guilt that has haunted the nation since the founding may finally be exorcized. Whatever sense of guilt whites may have felt about the racial injustice in our history has faded with his rise to the presidency.

No matter. With Obama’s blessing, Attorney General Eric Holder plans to hire more than 50 new civil rights lawyers to search out racism wherever it can be alleged. Obama’s Department of Justice will now set out to undo the emphasis on cases of obvious discrimination, and create a divisive new witch-hunt.

Author, columnist, and research fellow, Shelby Steele wrote his book, “White Guilt,” in 2006. According to Steele, the success of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s showed that America’s power structure lacked moral authority. White guilt was an attempt by whites to regain that right by attempting to appear benevolent toward blacks, while many African-American leaders took advantage of white guilt to gain handouts such as affirmative action. The result has been troublesome for both races, and for America as a whole. While we should confront racism when it occurs, over the years it has become rare and marginalized. Only in a country as colorblind ours is could a black man easily win the presidency when white Americans cast the vast majority of the votes.

With the passing of white guilt from the forefront of the national conscience, perhaps the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and all the other race hustlers of the land will no longer be taken so seriously. And perhaps the identity politics that has divided the country and sustained the Democrat Party for a half-century can finally be ended.

When Obama and his ways are finally rejected, perhaps then, we can finally live in a country where all will be judged by the “content of their character.” This may be one Obama legacy that we can look forward to.

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