Axelrod Rattled, Mitt's on a Roll

Deval Patrick backs away again from the Obama message (gee, what is it), which makes his own record look bad in comparison to Mitt's. Hmm, mmm, mmm. The Preezie's peerless political guru David Axelrod tackles the Romney record to no avail:

Gee, Davey Baby, how come you're not in Wisconsin? (Or somewhere else. Hiding in a blue state? Hey, come back to Illinois!) A good GOP record in Wisconsin, unemployment lower than nationally, because Gov. Walker's reforms are working. Property taxes are down, business outlook up, jobs created solid progress. Union membership is down. Walker can claim O's silly Forward slogan as his own, it's the Wisconsin motto from way back.

Better yet, while at his Mass. presser Axelrod gets questions about Dem Senate candidate Pinocchiohontas Elizabeth Warren.

Meanwhile, Romney is standing in front of O's crony greenie bust Solyndra, while Obama is at the White House with W, who jokes now you can look at his portrait and ask, what would Bush do.

Well, I do love W, he's a true patriot who kept us safe, but he's a big gov guy who spent too much.

So, the word is--run against Obama as Bush's third term.

I'd say campaign 2012 is off to a promising start:)

Let's roll.

P.S. My very own favorite tweet from the WI Walker-Barrett debate last week:
Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

#widebate lol. Barrett accusing Walker of "national ambitions" and being a rock star. Obama hasn't shown up for Barrett

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Michelle Obama, Beyonce Wannabe

We know Michelle O has achieved quite a bit in her life--her Princeton, Harvard ride, stint at the Daley Machine HQ, and cushy spots on various boards, etcetera, etcetera. She's planted a White House garden, and has Barack Obama.

What more could there be.

She wants to be Beyonce. Maybe that explains this, at a kids' award show.

Some dared to ask the question at the time:

Has Mrs. Obama broken the rules for what is age appropriate? Should she keep pushing the fashion envelope, or are you so over it?

In any event, she's getting more scrutiny from her fellow travelers, if not on her policy forays and crony cash-ins, but her starstruck gush: Keli Goff: Did Michelle Obama Make a Major Misstep with Beyonce?

In an interview with People magazine to promote her new gardening book, when asked if she could be anyone in the world, the first lady replied "Beyonce."
While I thought it was a slightly odd response, (after all, I couldn't picture Hillary Clinton saying, "Lady Gaga" or "Madonna") I assumed that maybe I was simply being too square. I then shared the article featuring her response with a family member and African-American friend, both of whom are fans of the first lady, and another friend who is not African-American but is a die-hard Beyonce fan. Without sharing my own thoughts first, I asked for theirs. They all reacted with varying degrees of horror.

They were not alone. A quick look at the comments on predominantly African-American news sites, where commenters tend to be fans of the first lady, Beyonce, or both, made it clear that many found the first lady's response troubling, and some found it downright embarrassing. A quick sample of the comments:
"This makes me sick to my stomach if Mrs.O said this."
"Embarrassing..."
"I just think that she should have found some other Black woman to praise other than Bey because she is not a good role model."
"And we wonder why our kids are struggling in the streets and schools. All I can do is shake my head on this one - unbelievable."

I've commented on Beyonce before. And let's recall the glorification of cop-killing and misogyny in the White House, at a workshop for kids. The Huffpo blogger goes on to flesh out her own opinion, which is worth the read.

So we may come together on this, conservatives and somewhat independents alike--our too Hollywood, too party-time presidential couple may get a reckoning in the fall. We are in the recovery that wasn't. We could use better leadership.

P.S. Here's someone who takes her obligation as a role model seriously:
More. Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

Good for this lady. Anything to say, Jesse?: Aldermen: Saggy pants disrupt schools http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-chicago-schools-baggy-pants-0531-20120531,0,7902049.story

Obama: all his friends in Chicago were Jewish

Perhaps Rev. Wright doesn't count as a friend, and who really knows who Barack's friends are anyway.

But the president isn't done: TWS: 'Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President'

Previously, our President Barack Obama:  Obama some of my best friends (like Pfleger) are Catholic 

And lately, oh well with the Poles.

Related: Our first Native American president

That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull pieces. Many times a little face may come out and stare back at you.

House testimony from an ob-gyn doctor who performed abortions, now pro-life.

I read it, I couldn't watch it.

Don't tell me this is not wrong.

Via Pundit & Pundette

"Folks, we live in a democracy. But not here"

Not here, Illinois. No, Chicago Tribune reporters, it's not "political theater", but heartfelt outrage.

Biography: Full-time state legislator and business owner; born Dec. 30, 1960, in Murphysboro; graduated, Murphysboro High School; attended University of Illinois Certified Firefighter II Academy; served in U.S. Marine Corps (1979-82); married (wife, Tracy), has three children

I do think local districts should shoulder their pension costs, maybe then we'd get some realistic contracts and accountability. But not shoved through like this, with a tobacco tax trap.

Meanwhile, Quinn is hoping to use the backing of numerous business and public interest groups to help pressure lawmakers into passing major pension reforms. But the House under Speaker Michael Madigan does not appear inclined to approve key portions of Quinn's plan that would require employees to pay more toward retirement and retire later in life.

This is what's going on all over the country. Wisconsin's leading the way with real reform. If it can keep it. Illinois is still broke and corrupt. Death spiral.

P.S. Comment in The Blaze, HT Newsalert:

It isn’t ironic that Mr. Bost popped a vessel with pension spending bill in Illinois. I believe that a full 20% of the Illinois state budget is allocated to funding pensions….imagine that…20%!!!! Union workers make up on average 13% of the workforce and 20% of the states budget is dedicated to paying for their retirement.
Go Scott Walker…

P.P.S.

17m Christian Schneider ‏@Schneider_CM

Me in the MJS: Barrett's Bigger Bomb: http://bit.ly/KcHfE8

And this:  Unions and Government Hurt Workers - John Stossel, FOX Business

This stunning video:Chicagoland Shakedown: Why It's Impossible to Run A Business Without Breaking the Law 

Iron-fisted thuggery. Government regulations and interference enable rampant corruption at every level of government. This is Barack Obama's Illinois. This is his America.

Barry Obamski stuffs up

True, he didn't really adopt this persona as part of his post-modern composite, but his Chicago turf is home to a million or so Polish Americans whom he just slapped in the face: President Obama Causes Outrage with Reference to ‘Polish Death Camp’

Don't words mean things, Mr. President. Gonna hide behind your teleprompter.

The Polish president, unlike the Russian (how's flexible workin for ya, Barack)...

The exchange, parts of it inaudible, was monitored by a White House pool of television journalists as well as Russian reporters listening live from their press center.

The United States and NATO have offered Russia a role in the project to create an anti-ballistic shield which includes participation by Romania, Poland, Turkey and Spain.

But Moscow says it fears the system could weaken Russia by gaining the capability to shoot down the nuclear missiles it relies on as a deterrent.

...was just in town for NATO:

  Komorowski, who made his first visit to Chicago for the NATO summit, also met briefly with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. At a meeting with the Tribune's editorial board, the president said the nearly 1 million Polish-Americans in Chicago — the largest population outside Warsaw — are an asset, and the city should take advantage. [snip]

Several of the young professionals said they wanted the president to know that they support Poland and value their Polish heritage as well as their American citizenship.
"We wanted to introduce the president to a perspective of what Polish-Americans look like today, not just immigrants but second and third generations that are interested in their community and giving back as well," said Agnes Ptasznik, 30, an assistant Illinois attorney general who attended the event. "Their parents and grandparents had to take hard jobs, and they invested in them, and it paid off."

You diss, you get dissed. Especially when you don't know much about history. You could not only refer to Nazi death camps but Russian massacres. Massacres being in the news lately. I imagine more than a few will remember in November:

53m  Larry Sabato ‏@LarrySabato

Hmm. PA has 824,000 Polish-Americans. WI: 500,000. OH: 433,000. Even FL: 430,000

More at Memeorandum. [thanks for the link]

Update. Chicago media: ABC7  Obama reference to 'Polish death camp' faulted

Ed Driscoll, PJ Media references Pres. Ford's major gaffe, plus this:

  As Seth Mandel noted earlier this month at Commentary, “it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford).” Nice Obama to rectify that omission with his latest gaffe.

Video via the Jawa Report, with more, The Economist. A gaffe heard round the world:

Even in the middle of the night, the reaction in Warsaw was incendiary. Poland wants Mr Obama to apologise to prime minister Donald Tusk. America's most important ally in the ex-communist world already feels bruised by the administration's shilly-shallying on issues such as missile defence (back in 2009 Mr Obama's administration chose to announce its backtrack on that on September 17th, the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. That was akin to giving America bad news on pacific security on Pearl Harbour day). America has not lifted visa requirements for Poles (who can die alongside Americans in Afghanistan but not visit them without humiliating bureaucratic hassles). And instead of providing the promised Patriot missile battery to protect Warsaw, it sent some toy rockets as part of a sales pitch. (That, at least, is how Poles see it).

More: myFOX Chicago: Obama reference to 'Polish death camp' faulted

More. Adrienne.

Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph:

President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish First Lady, and 94 senior officials who perished in the Smolensk air disaster.

In Russia. Read on.

And how could I forget Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, Memorial Day story:

 There are many graves at St. Casimir Cemetery on the Far South Side of Chicago, and one belongs to Emil Wasilewski.

Emil's coffin is there, but Emil isn't in the ground.< The empty casket was buried after his family learned that Lt. Emil T. Wasilewski, a decorated bombardier, was killed in action in Germany in 1944.

Pop song newsie katie

Seriously? 

You want a song got some talent for that go for it. But news? Not by you, cliché Katie.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

P.S. Maybe the boob belt look would get you more respect.

Massacre and Misogyny

 The world has intruded again on our domestic tranquility, such as it is, with this, our most excellent president in the halls of history.

I don't follow Lady GaGa but it's hard to miss this one.

In Saudi, religious police follow a woman around the mall. Thankfully she has smarts and a camera, and the regime is not as harsh as others. Zealots go after McDonalds. Progress, I guess. Will we see this next in the West.

... France: Muslims stone Christians in church during Mass - Jihad Watch

We are already there on another front, misogyny ushered in by leftist feminists. We have seen the next step, massacre of innocents by the state. Beyond that? Life is cheap, and society's bedrock institutions and the children they protect are expendable. Cowards and Killings.

And then there is Syria, now Iran's client state, which probably harbored Iraq's WMDs, those developed after Saddam Hussein's Iraq used chemical weapons on its own people. Syria has engaged in massacres before. At Hama years ago, stronghold of the Muslim brotherhood. Now Houla: An 11-Year-Old Boy Smeared Himself With Blood And Played Dead To Escape A Syrian Massacre:

 He stood at the back of the entrance to his home as the gunmen killed his mother, five-year-old sister and one of his brothers. When the men shot at him and missed, the boy put blood on his face "to make them think I'm dead."

Iran has sent Revolutionary Guard forces into Syria, to prop up this horrific regime.

Who will take down Syria. Who will take down a nuclear-arming Iran.

And what will come in its place.

Let's have no illusions. But a world without strong U.S. leadership is a dangerous place. And smaller every day.

The Kirk Kerfuffle

So even as he's barely out of serious rehab for his stroke, Sen. Kirk gets hit with this: Kirk's ex-wife files FEC complaint questioning campaign payments

This is truly sad, but not with merit.

I would also point out, as a supporter and volunteer for Kirk since his first Congressional run, that McCracken was hired as a PR professional, having had experience in other races. I remember her essentially focus-grouping us at a Republican women's luncheon over the salads. Vertolli was at the event as well, by Kirk's side, as his fiancee when he began his first general election run for Congress.

I wish the Senator and his family well in his continued recovery, and look forward to seeing him on the Senate floor again soon.

  ---thanks for the link, Memeorandum

The land of the free

and the home of the brave.

Fatboy Gov Hits Coffee Shop

How busybody big gov war on women bullies KILL JOBS. Who wouldn't want to have a cuppa at Marylou's:

 Do we want to live in a world that thinks this is wrong?!

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And this one: Let's go break the windows in Barack's house!!!

We'll "stimulate the Chicago economy". But at least WE won't be paying for it. Like, you know, Solyndra.  

 ...harassing small businesses just trying to make an honest living and paying taxes, while his cronyism goes rolling along at OUR EXPENSE: WASHPOST: Forget BAIN, Obama's public-equity record is real scandal...

Another Assault on the 1st Amendment: Brett Kimberlin

An unofficial assault.

Look at who's been funding him. The Tides Foundation prominent among them. Gee, where have we heard that before.

And mainstream institutions like Fidelity and Charles Schwab--giving money to a man who's been going after conservative bloggers, threatening them and their families.

Who is Brett Kimberlin? He started his crime spree in Indiana, as the Speedway Bomber. Catchy. But it wasn't an impersonal attack:

On July 29, 1978, Speedway resident Julia Scyphers, 65, answered a knock at her door. A man she didn't know was standing on her stoop asking about items she'd recently tried to sell at a yard sale. She let him into the garage to look at the items and he shot her in the head.

Read on. Here's a video clip of Kimberlin's career:

How to kill the first amendment.

This is what the left looks like. He is theirs.

More. Matthew Vadum,  Capital Research Center on Kimberlin's funding, ending with this:

Do the people at the Tides Foundation, Barbra Streisand Foundation, and Heinz Family Foundation know that they have given money to an organization run by a litigious, violent, radical felon who appears to delight in intimidating people whose views he disagrees with?
Oh wait. There’s no point in answering that question in the Obama era, is there?

Vadum was on WGN's Milt Rosenberg's Show discussing Occupy Chicago's sources. Audio.

Free speech blogburst: Show solidarity for targeted conservative bloggers; Update: It’s Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day

P.S. Hey Occuzombies. Stick This In Your MacBooks And Smoke It.  

---Thanks for the links, Michelle Malkin, Memeorandum. More via Pundit & Pundette, Patterico's chilling account of harassment

More.  Kimberlin Funders Stunned to Discover they Fund Kimberlin

Obama some of my best friends (like Pfleger) are Catholic

 “When I was a young community organizer, I was working with Catholic churches and they taught me that no government program can make as much of a difference as kindness and commitment on the part of neighbors and friends,” he said at a Colorado fundraiser earlier that day.

Pfleger's no Mother Teresa, but the HHS still would consider this non-religious activity. Well, so do I in the case of anything that hate-filled hack does, but what a sorry argument.

Maybe the PC media will cover this now but don't expect them to ask substantive questions about this policy disconnect.

In case you forgot Pfleger's epic rant (at the Rev. Wright's church by the way):

Then there's this gem: Father Pfleger memorializes Trayvon Martin with wooden statue, hoodie, Skittles at church altar [VIDEO]

Oh, yeah, good luck with that tack, Barack.

...from an old post:

It's another lesson in the war on religious freedom, intentional or unintentional. The late Chicago Cardinal Bernadin comes to mind.

When you lose independence and personal accountability, you may lose your soul along the way.

True kindness and commitment to core principles of faith are key in making a real difference.

Just as adherence to the 1st amendment's religious freedom is the bedrock of America's success.

P.S.
 Jen B ‏@LibertyImages

LOL LOL Way to go, Cardinal Dolan! "On the soup line, what are we supposed to do? Ask for baptismal certificates?" #win

Fetisheers Take On Union In Chicago

Welcome to these allies in the pushback against brazen union intimidation. More alleged or otherwise union thuggery:

Krongaard also accuses UNITE HERE of using questionable tactics to advance its agenda. He said that in years past, convention vendors had been "harassed" and "subtly threatened" by union supporters and that several had been contacted at their homes or places of business by name and leather title, effectively outing them to coworkers and neighbors as participants in the leather subculture. Specifically, Krongaard says 2010 International Mr. Leather winner Tyler McCormick was called at work and identified by name and leather title to the company switchboard. He also says the stress of dealing with protests contributed to the death of former IML coordinator RJ Chaffin in 2011, of heart failure.

Unions are the new robber barons, extorting cash from people, enforcing conformity, and at worst, taking entire states hostage.

Enough of the truly rough stuff.

But what this also illustrates is there's a war on between traditional Dem supporters, like these conventioneers at big Dem Pritzkers' Hyatt, who want to get on with business and with life, and those who are enlisted in the radical Obamastan thugocracy, official or otherwise.

God forbid people should exist as other than Obamanomics drones.

They might question their support for Barack. Perhaps they already have.

HT Memeorandum.

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Robbers with knives, syringes hit Lincoln Park

Well, this is a new one. But let's put our faith in gun control, Chicago.

Because it's nothing to do with criminal behavior.

No word on whether they were wearing a hoodie.

Or whether wearing one here would have saved these boys from being shot:

"asked the boys if they were affiliated with a gang and when the boys told them no": Two teens shot in Marquette Park http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sect …

These Lincoln Park robbers were probably just druggies with sunglasses, I guess. Small comfort.

...but this is the heart of hippie/yuppie/whatever dom

So maybe it's some home-grown occupiers.

Previous post: Give the whole country to Disney

Give the whole country to Disney

This arose from a Pethokoukis piece, Imagine if Steve Jobs were the GOP nominee …and how he would be savaged by our oh so fair-minded press. Brit Hume's commented on the double standard.

But beyond that, when Jobs died many wondered whether we would see his like again. It's not just a question of a fatboy Gov that kills small business, job creation and innovation with busybody and punitive regs and taxes, it's the youthful promise of our country. Is it still there? Some kids still play with big cardboard boxes and tinker with making their own toys but is it enough? Or will the mind-numbing PC and failed public school system triumph in the end.

There's an email that's been going around for some time, but what it says is telling. Some laid-back youth addresses an older person and says you're out of it, you don't know much about the internet, iPhones and on and on. The crusty older guy says, well, who invented it all. It's especially galling after witnessing the self-important and destructive attitudes in the streets of Chicago this last weekend, encouraged by our President, officially or not.

I've thought my suburban town could be better run by Walmart, and the country Jobs is talking about is Mexico, but why not Illinois? (Actually, I thought Walmart there too I see) Take my state. Please.

And America could do worse than have a Main St. everywhere that's clean, productive, respectful and going about the day with a smile on everyone's face.

...But the key is being able to fire people. Starting with our President Barack Bamboozler Obama.

More. How Real Is Barack Obama’s ‘Real World’? 
Yeah. The Obama Bubble

...who wouldn't prefer this to the lobotomized Julia the president envisions in his cartoon-like brain. 

Previous post: Back in the USSR. Getting Around

Back in the USSR. Getting Around

Circa 1972, converted from my old slides. The VW buses are our group's.

One of the many checkpoints along the road.

And there's always on foot.

On the way to Moscow from the Ukraine.

...This is how I'm feeling these days. It's like we're circling back.
 Russia tests new missile, in warning over U.S. shield...
As Europe's Crisis Grows, 'The Street Has Taken Control'
Consider California, Illinois EU-Style Failed States

NTHS Rejects Healthy. Does FLOTUS Know About This!!!

My kids old tony north shore high school where The Young Communist Club has been known to debate on the same team as the Dems, Rahm's old stomping ground, has gone bonkers. Seriously, if this isn't an indicator of the end of Let's Move chic I don't know what is. The essence of PC suburban shtick has cut loose:

New Trier High School is giving its food vendor a second chance after it apparently offended the palates of students and staff by providing an overly healthy selection.

Aramark Educational Services took over the lunch and catering program at the North Shore district in August. Aramark instituted a "strict implementation" of the district's wellness policy, which requires 75 percent of food and beverage offerings to meet National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity health standards, according to school administrators.

The company went overboard, administrators said. It cut all fried foods and monosodium glutamate. It also made all breads, pastas and tortillas with wheat. "

So, obviously, the students rebelled against that," said Don Goers, associate superintendent.

And the parents--they had to make bag lunches. The torture.

Sales dropped off. And, according to school board member John Myefski, parent involvement with the lunch process increased.
"I'm sick of packing lunches," Myefski said.

Um, why aren't the students making their own.

Has New Trier allowed a Meat Club? That was frowned on a few years ago, but perhaps will be a viable option, with the new menu:

School board President Al Dolinko cautioned the company, however.
"This is now on a short leash," Dolinko said, "as short a leash as it can be."

Does Barack know.

P.S. Postal Service ranks Chicago high for dog attacks
(Do they know something we don't know?)

Obama would deny Mother Teresa

As Catholic enough.

Our President Barack Obama and his nanny state would assault the religious freedom of a saint. And although many Americans are unaware of this battle for the spirit of America, they are coming to know:

Encouraging signs from a newly-released Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll:

“…the survey found that nearly three in four Americans (74 to 26 percent) say that freedom of religion should be protected, even if it conflicts with other laws. Majorities would also protect the First Amendment conscience rights of hospitals, health care workers and insurers. [snip]

“Strong majorities would let individual health care providers and organizations opt out of providing: abortion (58 to 38 percent), abortion-inducing drugs (51 to 44 percent), in vitro fertilization treatments that could result in the death of an embryo (52 to 41 percent), medication to speed the death of a terminally ill patient (55 to 41 percent) and birth control pills (51 to 46 percent).”

Who would deny the care of the poorest of the poor, an act of great humanity, can be suffused with great religious faith.

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Beat her in the face

South Carolina AFL-CIO Leader Bashes Nikki Haley Pinata: This is what Big Union looks like. How about in California:

In 1991, the CTA took to the ramparts again to combat Proposition 174, a ballot initiative that would have made California a national leader in school choice by giving families universal access to school vouchers. When initiative supporters began circulating the petitions necessary to get it onto the ballot, some CTA members tried to intimidate petition signers physically. The union also encouraged people to sign the petition multiple times in order to throw the process into chaos. “There are some proposals so evil that they should never go before the voters,” explained D. A. Weber, the CTA’s president. One of the consultants who organized the petitions testified in a court declaration at the time that people with union ties had offered him $400,000 to refrain from distributing them. Another claimed that a CTA member had tried to run him off the road after a debate on school choice.

Weber and his followers weren’t successful in keeping the proposition off the ballot, but they did manage to delay it for two years, giving themselves time to organize a counteroffensive. They ran ads, recalls Ken Khachigian, the former White House speechwriter who headed the Yes on 174 campaign, “claiming that a witches’ coven would be eligible for the voucher funds and [could] set up a school of its own.” They threatened to field challengers against political candidates who supported school choice. They bullied members of the business community who contributed money to the pro-voucher effort. When In-N-Out Burger donated $25,000 to support Prop. 174, for instance, the CTA threatened to press schools to drop contracts with the company.

This is third world thugocracy stuff. Come to you courtesy of our President Barack Obama and his milieu.

More from Chicago: NSFW video: Before Michigan & Cermak--anarchists on the march

This is what Obamastan looks like.

...Am I feeling grim? After this weekend, yes I am.

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Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist, Mainstream Funding

No, we're not talking Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers this time, but some bomber from Indiana. Robert Stacy McCain and his family are in hiding now after this post: 

Federal tax forms filed by convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin’s tax-exempt non-profit Justice Through Music Project (JTMP) show that the 501(c)3 group collected $1.8 million in gifts, grants and other contributions during its first six years of operation. An analysis using database research indicates that more than $300,000 of that sum came in the form of grants from tax-exempt foundations, including the George Soros-connected Tides Foundation, the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, the Barbara Streisand Foundation, and the Heinz Family Foundation, connected to Democrat Sen. John Kerry’s wife.
Convicted of multiple federal felonies in connection with a string of 1978 bombings in Indiana, Kimberlin’s activities recently have come under renewed scrutiny due to his attempt to press criminal charges against attorney Aaron Walker, a blogger who says Kimberlin tried to “frame” him as part of a campaign of harassment and intimidation against conservative New Media activists. [snip]

2005

Farview Foundation ………………………….…… $9,000

2006

Tides Foundation …………………………………. $60,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift …..…. $45,000
HKH Foundation ……………………………..……. $20,000
Heinz Family Foundation ………….……..…. $20,000
Olive Branch Foundation …………….……… $15,000
Farview Foundation …………………………… $10,000
Barbra Streisand Foundation …………………$5,000

2007

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift …..…. $19,000

2008

Threshold Foundation ………………..…..… $20,000
Tides Foundation ………………………….….. $10,000
Nathan Cummings Foundation ………..… $10,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift …..…. $20,000
Fred Gellert Family Foundation ……………. $5,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation ..… $5,000
Barbra Streisand Foundation ……………….. $5,000

2009

Schwab Charitable Fund ………………………. $10,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation .… $10,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift …..…. $6,000

TOTAL (2005-2009) .……………………………$304,000

After the political theater we have endured in Chicago this weekend--oh yeah, (this all makes him look like) he's really a moderate, our Pow Wow President laughs and jokes about free speech and economic stimulus-- I damn well wanna know who is funding and encouraging the Occupy thugs, who was going to pony up the money to bribe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Byron York, Washington Examiner:

But there is one subject concerning Wright that merits scrutiny. In a nearly three-hour recorded interview with Ed Klein, author of the new book "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House," Wright said that back in 2008, when he was at the center of a raging controversy over his sermons, a close friend of Obama's offered him money to shut up until after the November election.

In the interview, Wright said Dr. Eric Whitaker, a top official at the University of Chicago Hospitals, sent a note to Wright through an intermediary at Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ. "[Eric] sent it to one of the members, who sent it to me," Wright told Klein. "He sent it to one of the guys close to me, saying, 'Can you make this offer to Rev?'"

Wright said he has kept notes from his experience and keeps all his documents, including the note from Whitaker, in a cardboard box. According to Klein, the amount Whitaker offered Wright was $150,000.

And let me join others in asking the question again:

Why the Heck is Fidelity Investments
Giving Funds to a Convicted Felon?

And Charles Schwab?!

Modern Thuggery.

Related. James Pethokoukis: Obama’s dangerous words about profits and free enterprise 
Rendell’s Rebuke: Obama Attacks Are “Disappointing”
Freed domestic terrorist arrested with $800k in cash

And this:

But here’s the problem: The president never defines what he means by “fair.” And this is for a simple reason: his definition is simply not recognizable to most Americans.

There are two main ways to define fairness: fairness in terms of opportunity, and fairness in terms of outcomes. The first means leveling the playing field, and the second means spreading the wealth around. The first means lifting people up on the basis of merit, and the second means bringing successful people down. 

Threatening hard work and merit. Threatening America

  ---Thanks for the link, post of the day at Teri O'Brien, the Conservative Warrior Princess and BlogTalkRadio show host.

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