When Obama decided to go on ABC to discuss gay marriage I thought it was a huge mistake.  My theory was that those people desperate to see gay marriage legal in the United States were allready in Obama’s court.  No matter what Romney did or said, those folks were sticking with Obama.  But people who are definitely opposed to gay marriage would be infuriated by another politician determined to force everyone to accept gay marriage.  I was wrong.  It was even dumber than I thought.  The problem is that Obama can’t ever give a straight answer about anything.

Anyone who has paid any attention to Obama already knew he was for gay marriage .  He admitted that back in 1996 when he was running for the Illinois State Senate.  He just started lying about it when he decided to run for the U.S. Senate and realized this position was political poison.  Suddenly Obama got religion and decided gay marriage was wrong.

Joe Biden already mouthed off on the subject putting Obama between a rock and a hard place.  Obama did what he always does when faced with a difficult choice.  He equivocated.  He said he is personally for gay marriage, but thought the states should decide.  Perfect.  That impressed no one and angered people on both sides of this issue.

Obama’s grand announcement is drawing more flak from the supporters of gay marriage than from conservatives.  This is probably because conservatives knew Obama’s real position all along.  Following from the Gawker is typical:

http://gawker.com/5909002/barack-obamas-bullshit-gay-marriage-announcement#13366064585933

In the ultimate irony, Obama has simultaneously energized the conservative base opposed to gay marriage while alienating the extreme left that views gay marriage as the new civil rights movement.  It is a rare politician who is capable of creating hate and discontent for people on both sides of a controversial issue.  Obama has raised political incompetence to a new art form.

TDM

There always seems to be another “poll” out showing a tight Presidential election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.  This always causes concern among those who feel that Obama is the worst President in U.S. history.  Following is the link to the latest polls from Real Clear Politics:

 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

 Fortunately, these polls are beyond meaningless.  To those of you, who like me, question whether the country can survive another four years with Obama as President, I submit the following two questions:

1.  Does Obama have more or less support from Democrats than he did in 2008?

2.  Does Obama have more or less support from Republicans than he did in 2008?

I have yet to meet a single person, from either party, who thinks Obama is doing better with Democrats than he did in 2008.  I have yet to meet a single person from either party who thinks Obama is doing better with Republicans than he did in 2008.  All the recent polls show that Mitt Romney has a double digit lead among independents.

I do not know what will happen in November, but as of right now, Obama is in deep political trouble.  He would not only lose to Mitt Romney, he would lose by a record amount. 

Forget the polls.  For one thing they measure registered voters, not likely voters.  Instead, reflect on those two questions.  Then smile! 

 TDM

Khalid Sheik Mohammed was water boarded.  As a result of that procedure, he started to talk.  Eventually he gave up the name of Osama bin Laden’s couriers.  That is just how these things work.  If there had been no waterboarding, we would have learned nothing from Khalid Sheik Mohammed.  Only in the delusional world of the liberal left do terrorists give up this kind of information because we are nice and kind.  But once he started talking, he eventually gave up information that really mattered.

For years the CIA watched for this name.  Then in 2010, the courier made a phone call.  The U.S. intelligence agencies were waiting.  It is important to note that this was part of the program implemented by President Bush, over the strenuous objections of Democrats.  Just prior to the 2008 elections, Barack Obama promised to end warrantless wiretaps:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

“For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and ‘wiretaps without warrants.’”

But Obama already knew these wiretaps were necessary, that is why he voted for the FISA Amendment legislation in the summer of 2008 approving these wiretaps.  Senators Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton voted against this legislation:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/blogtalk-obamas-fisa-vote/

It has recently been reported that almost immediately upon being elected, Obama learned of a credible assassination plot against him.  While a mere threat National Security was apparently not enough to get him excited, a personal plot aimed at him got his attention.

Prior to 9-11, the United States tried to treat terrorism as a criminal activity.  After 9-11, President George Bush realized that we were in a war and that treating terrorism as a criminal activity had been a terrible mistake.   That is also the conclusion reached by the 9-11 commission.  That is why he bypassed the FISC courts, and started wiretapping on calls made from within the United States to suspected terrorists overseas. 

Osama bin Laden was living in a house in Abbottabad that the CIA had known about for years.  They didn’t care, because they assumed that Osama bin Laden would be surrounded by armed security.  They were wrong.  In 2010 that courier finally made a mistake.  He called someone the NSA was monitoring.  As a result of this phone call, the CIA was able to finally locate him.   It does not take much imagination to realize that this was one of those people wiretapped by the evil George Bush.  This courier eventually led them to the house in Abbottabad:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/how-did-the-cia-find-bin-laden-a-phone-call-a-courier-and-years-of-detective-work/

The CIA thought they had found bin Laden in August of 2010.  It certainly was the best lead in years.  One would think that this was enough information to send in a team.  The United States has numerous Special Forces units fully capable of handling such an assignment.  I suspect that President Bush would not have hesitated to authorize that mission.  But Obama demanded proof positive.  As Bill Clinton pointed out in Obama’s self-congratulatory campaign commercial, Obama was concerned that if the Navy Seals were killed, or captured, it might make him look bad.  Think about that.  There was this house, clearly designed to hide someone significant, and one of the few people in the world who knew how to contact Osama bin Laden went there.  That should have been more than enough.  I suspect we have sent our guys over on far more dangerous assignment s with much less intelligence.

But even though it was obvious that someone important probably bin Laden, was in that house, Obama demanded more proof.  So the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in an elaborate scheme to get DNA from someone in that house.  The following article describes this adventure:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna

Perhaps I am wrong, but it sure looks like a really stupid and high-risk plan.  Here we had a strong lead, with regard to the location of bin Laden, and the President waffles demanding more proof. In desperation, the CIA develops this fake vaccination plan.   It is a miracle that Osama bin Laden was not tipped off by this bizarre scheme. 

By the way, this scheme will cost thousands of lives.  There are world-wide humanitarian efforts to wipe out small pox and polio.  In some countries, kids are even dying from measles.   One of the big barriers to achieving this goal has been the reluctance of people in places like Pakistan to let their children get vaccinated.  There are myths commonly repeated in the radical Muslim movements that these vaccines are a western plot to poison children.  As a result of the use of humanitarian efforts to try and find bin Laden, parents all over Pakistan are refusing to let their children get immunized: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/13/bin-laden-vaccine-plot-cia

The story is crystal clear.  Obama was far less worried about killing Osama bin Laden than about his own political future.  That is why there was such a long delay in authorizing the raid.  It is also why he went on national TV to gloat about the great success.  It is why he is now running this tasteless commercial.  It exposes an incredible lack of character in the President of the United States.

 TDM

Hosea 8:7  “For they sow the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.”  In 2014, Obama care requires every employer in the United States, with more than 50 employees, to provide “qualifying health insurance.”  If employers fail to comply, they will pay a tax of $2,000 per employee ($3,000 if employee receives coverage through an exchange).  The plan was to force businesses to provide health care to employees.  That is far from true. 

The people who dreamed up this puppy probably thought this would force everyone into a government run single payer health care system before anyone realized it was happening.  The fine is clearly inadequate to cover health care costs, so this is a classic bait and switch operation.  In a very short period of time the employer fine would have been increased to cover actual costs, but employees would have lost employer sponsored health care in the meantime.

However, the negative impact of this mandate will send shock waves through the economy long before 2014.  The people who wrote this are absolutely clueless with regard to how business operates in the U.S.  Most companies with a lot of employees are publicly held and many of them are also unionized.  As a CEO of a publicly held corporation, you are required to maximize equity for stockholders.  Since many of these companies are paying up to $12,000 per employee, per year for health care, they will be required to cancel their employee sponsored health care and pay the fine.  Failure to do that would result in massive litigation from attorneys filing D & O claims.  Directors & Officers liability claims are already a major problem for publicly held corporations.  Even if the CEO thinks this will be devastating to employees, they will still do it, because they have a non-delegable duty to stockholders. 

If the firm has a significant number of union contracts, the problem becomes worse and the problem develops much sooner.  If a union contract comes up for renewal now, and the contract will last through 2014, the CEO of the company will have to address the issue now.  We should expect to see union contracts negotiated with a stated intent by the company to cancel employee sponsored health care in 2014.  A lot of people who are more than happy with their employer sponsored health care plans are in for a very rude awakening.

Obama care also appears to be designed to eliminate Medicare Advantage programs. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2012/04/27/obamacare-a-dozen-more-damaging-disclosures/

This year Medicare Advantage was already cut, but the Government Accounting Office used $8.3 billion from a slush fund to make up the difference.  That is because if Medicare Advantage programs were cancelled during an election year the results would be catastrophic to Obama.  Of course this is exactly what will happen in the near future.

Many people are terribly concerned by the blatant attempt to shove socialist medicine down our collective throats by Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.  Remember that Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote.  Even then, it required the illegal prosecution of Ted Stevens, the re-writing of the law in Massachusetts, the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase to get enough votes to pass this monstrosity.  The Democrats own Obamacare, lock, stock and barrel.   It is now obvious that Democrats have made an enormous blunder.  The problem is that when liberals gain power is that they have no clue with regard to the real world.  Obamacare is so flawed that it is about to implode under its own weight.   Yes, they definitely planned to force us into socialized medicine.  But they are hopelessly incompetent and that is becoming increasingly obvious.

So far very little of Obamacare has been implemented.  People are still concerned because of the “predictions” by opponents.  That is about to change.  Obamacare is far worse than anyone is reporting and the impact will be even more devastating.  It will soon become impossible to disguise the enormous failure of this monstrosity.  Obama’s only hope of re-election is to delay the negative impact of this legislation until after the election.  That is why they “borrowed” $8.3 billion for Medicare Advantage.  But they are out of time and they are also out of money.  This is so bad that the Supreme Court overturning Obamacare may be the best thing to happen to Obama. 

TDM