It's probably a coincidence that Obama and Bloomberg are among the few officials in America defending the mosque, just as they defended holding the 9/11 trial in lower Manhattan.
Both see themselves as citizens of the world who ascribe ugly motives to anybody who disagrees with them. Elite of the world, unite!
It's the "good to be king" syndrome and Bloomberg is no piker, as he showed in his first over-the-top mosque speech. With the Statue of Liberty helpfully framed behind him for TV cameras, he called the mosque a life-or-death test of religious freedom.
It is not, but mission accomplished. Liberals loved it -- Obama's State Department posted it on a website and The New York Times swooned.
New Yorkers and the rest of America, not so much. The speech turned a simmering location controversy into a holy war as the mayor tarred as bigots anybody who opposed the mosque or dared to question its $100 million financing.
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The speech turned a simmering location controversy into a holy war as the mayor tarred as bigots anybody who opposed the mosque or dared to question its $100 million financing.
HOWARD DEAN ON GLENN BECK: What I see is, these folks are kind of, and I don't mean this in a mean kind of way, but they're a little like lost souls in the sense that they really do, they're at sea, the country's changed a lot, they don't, they're in the middle of a horrible economic downturn which has probably affected a lot of them personally. So they follow this guy who is like Father Coughlin from the 1930s. He's a racist, he's a hate-monger.
Same old tired out rhetoric by the left. Spouted so often that all the meaning has been sucked out of the words. In fact, when someone is called a bigot, you'd better look for a person who loves America, favors the Constitution, is a caring patriot and is for equal rights for all. It's getting to be a badge of honor to be called a bigot.
With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats' health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has "a lot of reeducation to do" heading into the midterms.
"Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn't," Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday. Especially among the morons who signed it unread.
"So, we have a lot of reeducation to do," Sebelius said. Yup! Setup those re-education camps. I know where we can get some cheap tents! Pol-Pot only used them for a few years. They don't even leak [much].
As of Monday, one million seniors have received $250 rebate checks to help them fill the "donut hole" in Medicare's prescription drug coverage. Sebelius says by the end of the year, as many as four million Part D participants may get checks. Most of them just before the election in November no doubt.
"Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic," Sebelius told ABC News.
Sebelius says she understands the concerns of American seniors. "They're worried about what happens to their benefits in the future, worried about what happens to the overall stability of Medicare." Just wait until the Death Panels are setup. Then we will be seeing some major 'reeducation'!
"It does not ease cost pressures but papers over them with unsustainable price controls," [former HHS secretary Mike] Leavitt wrote.
Sebelius argues the reforms "strengthen" Medicare, extending its solvency by 12 years through 2029. You see by rationing care we eventually decrease the demand....
"My view is actually supported by independent actuaries, by economists and by the Congressional Budget Office," Sebelius said. Who all bludgeoned the data until it fit the model.
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"So, we have a lot of reeducation to do," Sebelius said.
The elderly should exempted from the reeducation schemes. They no longer pay taxes and have been programmed to be denied life sustaining medical services anyway. Really no need to waste valuable resources on terminal voters.
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My Mom is retired and lives in San Diego - a $250 rebate check won't pay the electric bill for using the air con in August. Donut hole my A@#, its a gaping abyss.
Posted by: retired LEO ||
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It's a bad law before re-education and it'll be a bad law after re-education. Why do these people always sound like communists when they speak? They going to send the American people to re-education camps?
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They going to send the American people to re-education camps?
No. It's just that every time you turn on TV or radio or open a newspaper or magazine somebody like Sebelius will be expounding on the virtues of socialized health care. The MSM, of course, will be happy to play along. But it could get so intense that you start thinking the whole country is a reeducation camp.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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JohnQC,
The reason they sound like communists is that they are the political and intellectual heirs of the International Communist Movement that spawned their parents in this country during the Cold War. That is all those communists that "didn't exist" and were persecuted by that evil Joe McCarthy. They are alive and well using the U.S. as a new host for their disease.
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Abu - don't we have that now. Go to any of the alphabet-soup networks (ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,etc... with the possible exclusion of FOX) and you get exactly that.
Anguper - Pol-Pot didn't use body bags - just threw the bodies in a field with all the others.
When I was in school I was taught about how Evil Joe McCarthy was and about how persecuted the hollywood 'stars' were. Turns out Joe was right after all. Nowdays you just about get 'blacklisted' if you are pro-american (unless you are already a star like Bruce Willis).
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Reeducation is an interesting word choice. Most right thinking people would say education.
Reeducation implies that the message is fine, it is the recipient who is misguided. Marx Sebelius is proceeding from a false assumption; the product has been rejected by the majority of the American people and is far from fine. Sebelius and her party is heading for a cliff in November and as long as they fail to acknowledge the problem they will be unable to fix it. History will not be kind.
If only we can educate the RINO's ....
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President Obama's top education official ordered under pain of unemployment urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.
"ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the 'Reclaim the Dream' rally and march," began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday. An invitation from your highest boss like this is more of an order.
Sharpton created the event after Glenn Beck announced a massive Tea Party "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where King spoke in 1963. What this says is that Sharpton couldn't get a 'crowd' (if that's what you call it) without the Department of Education practically ordering staff to attend. The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan's request. Although the e-mail does not violate the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from participating in political campaigns, Education Department workers should feel uneasy, said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.
"[Conservatives] think we showed up [to vote for Barack Obama] in 2008 and that we won't show up again. But we know how to sucker-punch, and we're coming out again in 2010," Sharpton said. He said to the few faithful follows who attended his gathering without having to be told to attend by their boss.
Duncan called education "the civil rights issue of our generation."
"Educators, we have to stop thinking of [poor-performing children] as other people's children," he said. And your department has had what? 40, 50, 60 YEARS and in all that time performance has dropped faster than the Congressional Approval Ratings. I am thinking of one Federal department which needs to be destroyed - not reformed, not financed, utterly and completely vaporized. And the ground salted as an example to future generation to never, ever, ever, place your children in the hands of politically appointed bureaucrats.
Speakers at the Sharpton rally praised Obama and took jabs at the Tea Party.
"Dr. King gave us a miracle in 2008. He gave us the first African-American president, and we must let them know today that we support [Obama]," said John Boyd, Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association. Another Racist-named organization I see....
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said Beck's rally "would change nothing. ... We will move right over you."
Education Department spokeswoman Sandra Abrevaya defended Duncan's decision. "This was a back-to-school event," she said. Bullshit. Like everything else the Department of Education has spewed forth since its creation this is complete and utter bullshit.
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Can we say Hatch Act. Not that AG Holder has any interests of upholding standing law. However, you can kill the appointee's time with long periods before Congressional committees after January on this line alone.
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"[Conservatives] think we showed up [to vote for Barack Obama] in 2008 and that we won't show up again. But we know how to sucker-punch, and we're coming out again in 2010," Sharpton said
Sucker punch as in race baiting, vote fraud, extortion, union payoffs you know that sort of thing.
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Yes eltoroverde, not to steal the thunder from Fred's "Good Morning" beauties, but the singer in the above "Obamanation" song is like many of our conservative ladies, beautiful, talented, smarter than the Department of Education(?) and passionate. So here is one more plug for young people like her. Over 6 million hits on this video but Liberal Hollywood has never given her a break. Bottom line, support our wonderful conservative young people.
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Separation of church and state!! Separation of church and state!!
(Oh, wait a minute, he's on our side. Ok, it's just fine that a government lackey ordered his employees to attend a rally sponsored by a religious type. No problem! Nothing to see, move along now....)
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It's probably a coincidence that Obama and Bloomberg are among the few officials in America defending the mosque, just as they defended holding the 9/11 trial in lower Manhattan.
