The audacity of audacity!

Governor Ryan Signs “Halal Food Act” - prepared according to Islamic law.

SPRINGFIELD — Governor Ryan today signed Senate Bill 750 creating the “Halal Food Act,” providing for inspections by the Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food labeled Halal is prepared according to Islamic law.

Senate Bill 750 was sponsored in by

Senators Barack Obama, D-Chicago,

Christine Radogno, R-La Grange, Laurence Walsh, D-Elwood, Louis Viverito, D-Burbank, and Ira Silverstein, D-Chicago and Representatives Tom Dart, D-Chicago, Eileen Lyons, R-Western Springs, Gwenn Klinger, R-Springfield, and Anne Zickus, R-Palos Hills.

http://www.illinois.gov/pressreleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=1517

WHY IS OBAMA ASHAMED OF HIS MUSLIM HERITAGE?

Jack Kennedy’s serial affairs and sexual addiction were well know by the press, but they protected him.

I loved Jackie and still have the greatest admiration for her and this story doesn’t change that because I don’t think I have the right to judge her. Here is a story from her biography and appears in other books including the unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra.

During his presidential campaign, she threatened to divorce him and when he heard, Joseph Kennedy invited her to Hyannis Port to talk. In the end, they made an agreement he would open unlimited credit for her at several exclusive dress shops in return for her corporation.

She would periodically go to these stores and make large purchases, hand them over to someone (believed to be her sister) for resale. Her motives weren’t clear. She had been raised in a household constantly short of money, but aristocratic and she had a great deal of insecurity. Or, she might have been giving the Kennedy family the finger or a combination. It is doubtful anyone believes her marriage to Onassis was anything more than convenience.

But it took Bill Clinton’s bj to get the press really stirred up with righteous indignation and the Republicans took it to the point of asking him, under oath, and the rest is history. Obama’s campaign and the press succeeded in making it an issue in Hillary’s campaign. The late Tim Russert even asked her about “Monica” in a debate for the senate in NY.

I am not attempting to justify what he did and the sex lives of politicians, including Larry Craig and so many others, do not interest me at all and I will not believe Larry Sinclair’s charge until he provides the evidence. Obama, like anyone else, is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.

I do, however, believe Obama’s campaign has encouraged the introduction of sins of the husband in this election. Just another reason to loath them.

Obama the flip-flopper

Obama has released his first post-primary ad, a 60-second spot that’s airing in 18 battleground states. In effect, “Country I Love” is Obama’s first ad of the general election campaign, and as such it invites scrutiny.

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His description of his upbringing and work history are accurate. He describes the “strong values” he says he learned from his mother and her parents. But when Obama discusses his legislative accomplishments, he leaves out some important context.

The ad talks about laws that Obama “passed,” but in fact, he sponsored only one of the three bills mentioned and cosponsored another. The third included provisions from some bills he’d sponsored earlier, but his name wasn’t attached to the one that passed. And two of the three laws were accomplishments of the Illinois Legislature, not the U.S. Senate.

Barack Obama released his first general election ad on Friday, which seems aimed above all to answer some early concerns about his biography and experience. It’s a well made ad, but it also offers an example of the kind of brazen padding of the resume that Obama will inevitably need to engage in, and which will carry serious risks for him.

About 46 seconds into the ad, we are told that Obama “passed laws” that “extended healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected,” and in the usual manner of these political commercials we are given a little citation at the bottom. The citation reads “Public Law 110-181 1/28/08”. That law is the only federal legislation cited in the ad — the other two items mentioned were from the Illinois legislature and referred to other issues raised in the ad.

Public Law 110-181 was the 2008 defense authorization bill. It passed the Senate by 91 to 3 in January, with six Senators not voting. Among those six absentees was Barack Obama. So he cites a bill he didn’t even vote for. Did he contribute to it in some way that might be reasonably referred to as extending healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected? It certainly doesn’t seem that way, as even Obama supporters at the Daily Kos discovered when they tried to answer some of the bloggers who pointed to Obama’s citation of the bill. They found that Obama had tried to insert an amendment that had to do with screenings for service members returning from deployments, and one that would ease the discharge of service members found to have personality disorders, but neither amendment passed. Another part of the bill, calling for inspector general reports about hospital facilities, had come from a different bill Obama had sponsored.

Even under the most generous reading imaginable could any of that count as passing legislation that extended health care for wounded troops? The Chicago Tribune noted the problem on its blog last week but defended Obama by pointing out that John McCain didn’t vote for the bill either. That would be an interesting piece of information if John McCain had cited this bill as among his chief legislative accomplishments.

The Obama team’s desire to pad the resume is understandable — it’s awfully slim after all. But this kind of dishonesty will catch up with them…or at least it should.

Here’s something to chew on.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-is-fox-news-protecting-obama/

If posted before I didn’t catch it so I apologize for repeating it.

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/98110602_nlt.html
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Clinton_let_bin_laden.htm

Even under the most generous reading imaginable could any of that count as passing legislation that extended health care for wounded troops? The Chicago Tribune noted the problem on its blog last week but defended Obama by pointing out that John McCain didn’t vote for the bill either. That would be an interesting piece of information if John McCain had cited this bill as among his chief legislative accomplishments.

Well even if McCain didn’t vote for it, it still doesn’t make it right for Obama to claim that he had done something when he didn’t do it. Two wrongs don’t make a right.