Expect a Desperate Obama to Dump Biden

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Vice President Joe Biden isn’t invited to Sunday campaign strategy meetings at the White House, The New York Times reported May 4.

President Barack Obama designated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., his top surrogate on foreign policy issues, fueling speculation he’d be secretary of state in a second Obama administration.

So Washington is abuzz with rumors the president will replace Mr. Biden with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

He ought to. Slow Joe is a national embarrassment.

Osama bin Laden made plans to assassinate the president and Gen. David Petreaus, according to captured documents. But the vice president should not be attacked, bin Laden wrote, because “Biden is totally unprepared for that post.” If he were president, Mr. Biden would “lead the U.S. into a crisis.”

Read More at Real Clear Politics. By Jack Kelly.

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Obama’s Bad Businessmen

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A slew of left-wing business moguls are on the skids thanks to poor investment decisions, questionable judgment, and accusations of bribery and cronyism.

Warren Buffett has lent his star power and his surname to President Barack Obama’s push for higher taxes, but his firm and its shareholders have not fared well during the Obama administration. Berkshire Hathaway has underperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by an average of eight percent over the past three years.

Buffett is not the only famous presidential supporter to fall from business grace.

Television titan Oprah Winfrey appears to have lost the golden touch that helped make her the richest self-made women in America and propelled Barack Obama from up-and-coming Illinois senator to the nation’s first black president.

Bloomberg News reported earlier this month that the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) may have lost as much as $330 million since its launch due to poor ratings and lackluster demand.

Read More at freebeacon.com.

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Documentary on Fast and Furious Scandal in Production Phase

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An Emmy award-winning filmmaker has decided he cannot stay silent in the face of a massive cover-up by the media complex and the Obama administration.

The magnitude of the government’s involvement in Operation Fast and Furious has roused documentarian Michael J. McNulty to stand up and call out the bad guys. Attorney General Eric Holder will figure prominently in McNulty’s feature length documentary, “Blood On Their Hands.”

McNulty was already familiar with Holder. In an interview on Breitbart.com McNulty stated, “Eric’s been busy in the cover up business for 20 years. We sorta know how he operates.”

Holder had become Janet Reno’s number two at Justice the same year McNulty’s1997 Oscar- nominated film “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” was released. When Reno recused herself from a 1999 special investigation of the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound, Holder took over.

According to McNulty he wants the Fast and Furious film to answer one simple question:

Why would the Attorney General of the United States give our money and assault weapons to Mexican drug cartel members all in the name of the American people’s government?

Read More at American Thinker. By M Catharine Evans.

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Palin-backed candidate Deb Fischer surging in Nebraska Senate primary

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An establishment candidate, a favorite of Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) and a candidate backed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) square off Tuesday in a GOP primary for Nebraska’s open Senate seat.

All eyes are on Deb Fischer, a Republican state senator and Palin’s pick for the seat, whose underdog campaign appears to have surged past her rivals’ in the final days before the primary.

For months, state Attorney General Jon Bruning had a clear double-digit lead over Fischer and state Treasurer Don Stenberg, who has been backed by DeMint, the Club for Growth and other fiscal-conservative groups. Few Republicans saw a realistic opportunity for Stenberg to overtake Bruning, and even fewer thought Fischer could pull off an upset victory.

But a series of last-minute surveys shows Fischer surging despite her shoestring campaign and millions of dollars in ads that Bruning, Stenberg and their allies have aired. A survey released Monday by independent firm We Ask America showed Fischer pulling into first place, taking 39 percent to Bruning’s 34 and Stenberg’s 18.

“Nebraska’s got a pretty good record of supporting underdogs. [Sen.] Mike Johanns [R-Neb.] was an underdog,” Fischer told The Hill.

Read More at The Hill. By Josh Lederman.

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Truth: Obama is probably even losing in Oregon

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In 2008 Barack Obama won Oregon by 17 points but a new SurveyUSA poll shows he is leading by just 4 points. If that was all the bad news out of The Beaver State it would be bad enough for Obama, but the news gets worse when more realistic standards of voter sentiment are applied to data as presented.

In response to this news, the Oregonian (one of the foulest of the Democrats’ mouth piece news outlets) points to the difference between the numbers of registered Democrats/Republicans/Independents who voted in Oregon’s 2010 elections and the breakdown SurveyUSA used to put its report together.

By that measurement there are 5.6% more Democrats .05% more Republicans BUT 6.1% fewer Independents in the State, and herein lies a serious flaw in the Oregonian’s “happy face” analysis.

Read More at Western Journalism. By Kevin “Coach” Collins.

 

Past Lobbying Becomes Issue In Arizona Senate Race

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Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president.

But as a result of the six-term congressman’s work as a lobbyist two decades ago for a Namibian uranium operation with ties to Iran, a GOP primary opponent and Democrats are portraying him as a Washington insider who should not get to succeed retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.

Well before Flake was a leader in the campaign to eliminate the pet projects and grants that lawmakers add to spending bills, he was a registered foreign agent who represented Namibia and a uranium mine in the southern African nation that gained independence in 1990. Flake has since received $100,000 in contributions from mining interests and voted a number of times against penalties on Iran.

In Washington’s revolving-door climate, it’s not unusual for lawmakers and lobbyists to switch back and forth.

Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., for example, began his political career as a congressional aide, then lobbied on behalf of hospitals for a decade before winning election to the House in 2006. Several lawmakers have worked as lobbyists between service in Congress, including Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif.

Read More at OfficialWire. By Jeri Clausing.

Obama White House Politicizes Mother’s Day

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(CNSNews.com) – In this election year, even Mother’s Day presented a political opportunity for the Obama White House.

On Sunday, the White House Web site posted two Mother’s Day e-cards — “to help you show some appreciation for the mom in your life.”

The cards target two voting blocs that President Obama is actively wooing — women and the military.
One card touts the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act. “Being a mom isn’t a pre-existing condition. It’s a joy!” the card says. It also states that beginning in 2014, “it will be illegal to deny coverage to anyone with a pre-existing condition, or charge women more than men for health insurance.”

The second card mentions Joining Forces, a military-support project that First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, are promoting.

Read More at cnsnews.com. By Susan Jones.

African-American Church Leaders Condemn Obama For Gay Marriage Support

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BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Just days after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, pastors and priests around Maryland took to their own pulpits with their reaction– and in some cases– condemnation of the president.

Derek Valcourt explains the president’s comments have folks on both sides of the issue fired up.

Both sides hope the president’s position helps sway votes in their favor when the issue hits Maryland’s ballot this November.

“I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama said.

When Obama announced that his position on same-sex marriage had evolved, it outraged some African-American pastors like Pastor and Del. Emmett Burns.

Read More at CBS News

VIDEO: ObamaCare and the Road to Serfdom

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Via AAPSOnline and John Stossel’s Fox News program:

Orthopedic Surgeon and AAPS President Lee Hieb, MD explains to John Stossel why restoring a free market in U.S. medical care will increase access to care, lower costs and improve quality. Government involvement in health care hurts patients.

Lugar Loss Highlights Sour Relationship Between Voters and Politicians

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When relationships go bad, an early warning sign is that one side doesn’t really hear what the other is saying. That’s certainly the case today in the relationship between voters and America’s Political Class.

Many in Washington, D.C. took comfort over the past year in polling data showing that fewer voters consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement. Only 13% claim such a tie today, roughly half its peak in 2010. This was reassuring to those in power, suggesting voters were willing to let the politicians return to politics as usual.

But the panic returned to Washington this week following the defeat of 36-year incumbent Senator Richard Lugar in a Republican primary election.

The reality that the politicians missed is that declining membership in the Tea Party did not mean a decline in anger at the Political Class. That’s because the Tea Party has always been strongest when it tapped into concerns that most Americans shared. In particular, the Tea Party highlighted the twin problems of continuous government spending growth and a self-serving Political Class out of touch with voters.

Today, only 33% are even somewhat confident that their representative in Congress is looking out for the best interests of their constituents. Only eight percent (8%) are very confident.

Read More at rasmussenreports.com.