30 Tuesday Nov 2010
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(Hat tip to Victoria Jackson, my TeaPartyExpress pal, fellow WND columnist, frequent guest on the Johnny Carson Show and former SNL comedienne who can do a handstand better than anyone I know).
Victoria Jackson hand stands at Tea party rally in OK City
30 Tuesday Nov 2010
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30 Tuesday Nov 2010
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Tip of the Hat to Dan Friedman of NYC
The classified diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks are the Pentagon Papers of the pro-Israel right…one might easily wonder if Assange isn’t instead a clandestine agent of Dick Cheney and Bibi Netanyahu
What comes through most strongly from the Wikileaks documents, however, is that U.S. Middle East policy is premised on a web of self-justifying fictions that are flatly contradicted by the assessments of American diplomats and allies in the region. Starting with Bush’s second term and continuing through the Obama Administration, Washington has ignored the strong and repeated pleas of its regional allies—from Jerusalem to Riyadh—to stop the Iranian nuclear program.
Perhaps the most disturbing revelation in the documents is the extent to which both the Bush and Obama Administrations have concealed Iran’s war against the United States and its allies in Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and the Arab Gulf states, even as those same allies have been candid in their diplomatic exchanges with us. U.S. servicemen and -women are being dispatched to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistanwhere they are fighting Iranian soldiers and assets in a regional war with the Islamic Republic that our officials dare not discuss, lest they have to do something about it.
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30 Tuesday Nov 2010
Posted in American Spirit
Julian Assange — hero or villain?
Forbes mag has a fascinating interview with Assange that gives us a glimpse of the man behind the leaks.
Admire him or revile him, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world’s secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago. Over the last year his information insurgency has dumped 76,000 secret Afghan war documents and another trove of 392,000 files from the Iraq war into the public domain–the largest classified military security breaches in history. Sunday, WikiLeaks made the first of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department cables public, offering an unprecedented view of how America’s top diplomats view enemies and friends alike.
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In a rare, two-hour interview conducted in London on November 11, Assange said that he’s still sitting on a trove of secret documents, about half of which relate to the private sector. And WikiLeaks’ next target will be a major American bank. “It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume,” he said, adding: “For this, there’s only one similar example. It’s like the Enron emails.”
Consider what the Wikileaks docs have revealed:
1. Hillary to the world as the devious, cold hearted, malevolent blackmailing battle axe Commie she is.
2. The machinations of the Arab world vis-a-vis Iran, and how their fear of the mullahs exceeds their hate for Israel.
3. The mass media now knows that its entire model of the Middle East has been wrong. For years, we have been told that the region revolves around the Arab-Israeli conflict.
4. Shows Syria’s radicalism, close links with Tehran, and how it has lied to the U.S. government making the Obama Administration look foolish.
5. Iran steadily smuggled arms to Hizballah using various means including in ambulances and medical vehicles during the 2006 war. This violates the laws of war.
6. Iran and North Korea cooperated to provide Tehran with long-rang missiles that were shipped to Hizballah.
7. He’s planning to divulge banking secrets.
8. Putin and Medvedev are Russia’s Batman and Robin.
9. John F. Kerry wanted to give half of Jerusalem to the Palestinian factions and believed that Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad was a man of change.
10. It didn’t get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama’s June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah ended with the monarch flying into a tirade and more or less telling the President to get a grip. This was the Riyadh meeting that Obama took on his way to his insulting and failed Cairo Speech, the better to prepare himself by visiting “the place where Islam began.” The sit-down was such a disaster that Dennis Ross was hurriedly brought into the White House and given a broader role…
There’s more, much more, and yet more to come. Stay tuned…
UPDATE:
John McTernan writes:
WikiLeaked: John Kerry calls for Israel to cede Golan Heights and East Jerusalem
In some respects, I am delighted with the Wikileaks. It has exposed China, North Korea and Iran as truly being an axis of evil. It has also revealed what is going on with some US politicians. It has really exposed Senator John Kerry for what he is. He was stablbng Israel in the back with the Saudi Arabians as he wants Israel to give up Jerusalem and the Golan!
Tomorrow I plan on calling Kerry’s office and condemn him for what he did. I encourage everyone to call to show Israel is not to be carved up. Contact Senator John Kerry.
29 Monday Nov 2010
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The "Honorable" Steny Hoyer, livin' large
Yep, the “Honorable” Steny, livin’ large.
Bet he’s NOT willing to freeze his Congressional pay…
From Charlotte in CA:
Oh those fabulous, patriotic Democrats. They ‘love our military,’ & always think they should enjoy nothing but the very best! They just don’t like the war part of it……….or now, not the payroll cost……….or the first rate medical care. Otherwise, our guys & gals should have premium treatment. E-Gad.
Hoyer: Military should also see pay freeze – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room
Russell Berman, The Hill.com
The second-ranking House Democrat said Monday that President Obama’s move to freeze the pay of civilian federal employees should also be extended to military personnel.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said including the military would have increased savings and add “an element of fairness.” He made the comments in a statement about he president’s announcement of a two-year pay freeze.
“While I appreciate that the president reduced the length of his proposed pay freeze from three to two years,” Hoyer said in a statement, “it would have produced significantly more savings had that sacrifice been shared between federal civilian and military personnel — with a strong exception for the members of our military and civilian employees risking their lives on our behalf in Afghanistan, Iraq, and anywhere else they are serving in harm’s way.”
Hoyer will become minority whip in the 112th Congress. He has made budgetary reform a signature issue, and he said he would review Obama’s proposal “for its balance between fiscal responsibility and the need to recruit and retain a federal workforce able to provide the level of service that the American people expect.”
The Maryland Democrat also urged the administration to back a more comprehensive program to reduce the nation’s soaring deficit, along the lines of proposals from the president’s fiscal commission and a separate debt panel.
29 Monday Nov 2010
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For Immediate Release – 29 November 2010 12:30 p.m. EST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain
Appeasement due to fear that some immediate small amount of veiled and threatened violence from the far left Saul Alinsky goons and tyrants and bullies and thus not doing the right thing early only to support the rule of law and the Constitution ultimately leads to be much bigger problem later. History has shown us that over and over.
This matter should have been addressed by the media and political parties early in the spring of 2008 during the primaries. It wasn’t.
Congress should have addressed this when asked and when constitutionally it was required to. It didn’t.
The courts should have addressed the merits of the questions when appealed to early on. They didn’t.
Everyone in our system of government chose appeasement over confrontation and punted the ball to someone else. Now it is far worse. The Supreme Court has chosen appeasement and inaction over action and dealing with the issue and questions openly in a court of law under the rules of evidence and law.
Our Constitutional Republic and legal system is now compromised and broken. And it will only get worse as our legal system and constitutional republic further deteriorates and the rule of law gives way more and more to appeasement of bullies such as Obama and his far left cronies and puppet masters.
Appeasement of the constitutional usurpers will not make it go away. It will only delay the inevitable and fester and in the end be a far worse situation to deal with when the real nature of the tyrant reveals himself in a bolder way and takes away all our liberties. Neville Chamberlain tactics never work with bullies, tyrants, and national socialists.
CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)
Lehigh Valley PA USA
Lead Plaintiff, Kerchner et al v Obama et al
http://www.protectourliberty.org
http://puzo1.blogspot.com
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By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer
November 29, 2010 10:42 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.
The justices without comment Monday rejected a challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr., a Pennsylvania man who sought a trial in federal court forcing the president to produce documents regarding his birth and citizenship.
Kerchner’s attorney, Mario Apuzzo, had argued in a petition with the Supreme Court that Obama did not fit the definition of a “natural-born citizen” required for the nation’s highest office, as defined by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
That clause states, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
Kerchner, a retired military officer who describes himself on his website as a “genetic genealogy pioneer,” argues the framers of the 1789 document intended a “natural-born” citizen to mean someone born in the U.S. to parents who were both American citizens.
The high court and other courts had dismissed earlier, unrelated lawsuits from individuals questioning Obama’s citizenship. State birth certificate records show he was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother is a native of Kansas; his father was born in Kenya, which at the time was a British colony.
“A person gains allegiance and loyalty and therefore attachment for a nation from either being born on the soil of the community defining that nation or from being born to parents who were also born on that same soil or who naturalized as though they were born on that soil,” said Apuzzo. “It is only by combining at birth in the child both means to inherit these two sources of citizenship that the child by nature and therefore also by law is born with only one allegiance and loyalty to and consequently attachment for only the United States.”
He said it was “undisputed fact” Obama’s father was a citizen of the British crown.
The Obama administration did not file, and the high court did not demand, a formal government response to this latest legal claim. The high court will often insist the Justice Department weigh in with its views on a particular constitutional issue, or when it is being sued, and that is a sign the justices are seriously considering accepting the appeal.
Obama and his staff produced copies of his birth certificate when he was running for president in 2008, and have previously dismissed questions over his citizenship.
Other legal claims on the citizenship question whether Obama was in fact born in the United States, and whether his birth documents are authentic.
Among the issues the high court has refused to fully address in these appeals involves “standing,” whether individual Americans can bring such a lawsuit, by first establishing personal, direct “harm” or “injury” from having Obama occupy the White House. Overcoming that legal hurdle would allow such suits to proceed on the merits in courts.
Some of the claims of various “birther” movement organizers insist the president was born in Kenya or Indonesia; that his birth certificate is a forgery; and that he had dual American-British citizenship at birth because of his father’s Kenyan heritage and therefore is not a “natural born” citizen.
The case is Kerchner v. Obama (10-446).
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29 Monday Nov 2010
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There’s a ton of stuff being written about the latest spate of Wikileaks. I’ve spent most of the day reading much of it. I was going to write a post about it, but after I read what Sarah Palin has written at her Facebook page, again doing an end run around the leftard media, I decided to go with what she said. It’s — simply put — what we’re all thinking. And asking…
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Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco
by Sarah Palin on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 3:17pm
We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.
First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?
What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?
Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?
The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?
We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.
- Sarah Palin
28 Sunday Nov 2010
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Kristinn Taylor and I have taken on the Leftard media — in this case, Eric Boehlert at Media Matters, the George Soros-financially sponsored propaganda tool for the socialist left.
Media Matters Lies About Media Coverage of Sarah Palin North Korea Slip is the featured story at BIG JOURNALISM this morning, and has attracted well over 100 comments at BIG GOVERNMENT where it is also posted.
Head over to either site to see what’s driving the leftards batsh*t.
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28 Sunday Nov 2010
Posted in American Spirit
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My friend Susan sent this with a note:
“Leave it to the intelligence of the Israelis. They come up with ideas to better humanity. Others come up with ideas to try to annihilate us…”
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28 Sunday Nov 2010
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Photography By Beverly Bennett, Melbourne Beach, FL
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27 Saturday Nov 2010
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Cape Canaveral Seashore photo by Andrea Shea King
It’s an overcast day here on the Space Coast where a brisk breeze is blustering out of the north in advance of a “cold” front edging its way into Central Florida. Perfect for a walk on the beach, where there’s peace and an incoming tide.
Heading south toward the Cocoa Beach Pier I spot a venue of vultures up ahead, busily pecking at a large mound on the sand. Black and big, they’re obviously having at whatever it is lying lifeless on the beach.
As I approach I see what’s laid out for them — a sea turtle, long since departed to wherever it is that these lumbering giants return.
It’s a feast for the old buzzards. Sensing my approach, they reluctantly back away from their Thanksgiving delicacy, impatiently waiting for me to pass before resuming their sumptuous supper.
Ear buds piping in some smooth jazz, I walk on and observe a palace for kings, or at least for sand crabs. Some little boy and maybe his Dad have put a lot of planning and effort into this kingdom, replete with seaweed flags and seashell architectural details. I hope they snapped a pic of it for posterity. This is one for a child’s scrapbook of memories, don’t you think?
A marvelous thing happened that I wasn’t able to capture with my camera — the unmistakably sweet fragrance of orange blossoms. It’s this time of year when they bloom, sending their lovely orangey sweetness into the air, a perfume wafting on the wind all the way from across the Indian River. Mixed with the scent of the sea, I believe this is what heaven must smell like… orange blossoms and ocean mist.
Yes…. heaven.
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27 Saturday Nov 2010
Posted in American Spirit, Obama Corruption, Obama Crime Inc.
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Beverly in KY sent an email this morning suggesting I might invite Stanley Kurtz on my program to talk about his revealing new book about Obama. Thanks Beverly. I’ll do that.
Guy Benson, Townhall.com’s political editor, has an article about his two hour interview with Kurtz, and has excerpted a portion of it in which they talk about UNO.
Now this is not the fun card game I played too many times to count with my grandkids. Nor is it the pizza parlor that serves up those scrumptious deep dish Italian concoctions.
Nope. This is something so nefarious, so thuggish, it’s the stuff of gangster movies. And guess who’s at the heart of it?
Obama.
Here’s a snippet of the interview Benson posted. Link at the bottom if you want to read it all. And you will.
Have you ever heard of a group called UNO of Chicago? No, not the deep dish pizza chain; the Left-wing community organizing outfit. How about the Midwest Academy? Does the name James Cone ring a bell? If you’re like most Americans – including many who consider themselves fairly well informed about President Obama’s background and associations – you’re probably drawing a blank on all three questions. That’s why Stanley Kurtz’s new book, Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, is so important.
The key word in the title is “untold.” Kurtz, a respectedinvestigative journalist and public intellectual, pored over reams of heretofore unseen documents and data from the president’s enigmatic past, and concluded that Barack Obama has been a movement socialist for much of his adult life. Despite its explosive title, the book is neither conspiratorial in nature, nor sensationalistic. It’s well-researched, and meticulously documented.
I sat down with Kurtz for a two-hour interview that will air in its entirety this Sunday evening on my radio program. For a flavor of the interview, here’s a partial transcript of just one exchange from our discussion, in which Kurtz details Obama’s relationship to the leader of a radical, ACORN-style group called UNO of Chicago:
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GB: It’s 1985, and Barack Obama lands in Chicago, at which point he becomes caught up in an alphabet soup of community organization groups. Some of them, of course, I’d heard of – including ACORN – but others that I had not, such as UNO. Tell us about UNO, because that was one of the bigger eye-openers to me as I read [Radical In Chief].
SK: That is one of the more amazing things I stumbled across. Who knew that Obama had been part of a community organization that no one had ever heard of before? And yet Obama really was closely connected to a top leader…of a group called UNO Chicago. ‘UNO’ standing for “United Neighborhood Organizations.”
GB: This was a really poisonous group.
SK: They were hardcore Alinskyites. They really were kind of a predominantly Hispanic counterpart to ACORN, in that they were extremely confrontational in their tactics. They were famous, for example, for having trapped Republican Illinois Senator Charles Percy in a ladies’ bathroom to punish him. He was supposed to debate [Democrat] Paul Simon when they were running against each other [in 1984].
GB: And UNO members chased him into a women’s restroom?
SK: That’s right. They trapped him inside.
GB: Over what?
Link here to read it all.
In researching the book, I came across this hourlong interview done by Hugh Hewitt with Kurtz about the scholarly approach he took in researching Obama’s past and the disturbing revelations it uncovered. The transcript – fascinating – can be read here.
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27 Saturday Nov 2010
Posted in American Spirit
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Well, as you can see, we’re sportin’ a new look at The Radio Patriot. But it’s temporary until my friend Marylou (Flamingo91.com) designs a new “me.”
Marylou is a graphic illustrator by profession, an artist by nature. Everything she touches, from her beautiful home to her culinary creations to her choice of colors and design are fabulous! And lucky me, she’s offered to give The Radio Patriot its own “look”.
We agreed that the blue on blue type of the previous WordPress theme — titled “Andrea” (which is part of the reason why I selected it), was hard on the eyes. There were elements of the theme that I liked working with: the wide text column, for example, and how the photos seemed to pop off the page. But I never did figure out how to add images to the sidebar, which was a constant source of frustration for me. And honestly? The blue theme was just an experiment, never really meant to be permanent.
So, I’ve returned to the black on white background. I’ll keep this look for now until we get something going. When we’re ready to unveil the new look, it will be a “ta-dah!” moment! I’m looking forward to it.
Hope your thanksgiving day was as pleasant as mine was. Enjoy the long weekend, but don’t take your eye off the ball. The enemy never sleeps.
27 Saturday Nov 2010
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27 Saturday Nov 2010
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26 Friday Nov 2010
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In case you missed it…
This week’s Surfin’ Safari column leads with “Airport Security – the new Checkpoint Charlie?” – the TSA controversy and how the Internet is being used to communicate, coordinate, and report on controversial airport security measures.
I also tell you about how the government is clamping down on the information superhighway via Net Neutrality and COICA, the Senate’s attempt to confer complete authority to the Attorney General Aric Holder to shut down websites for the flimsiest of reasons.
Below the fold, you’ll find “Qwik Picks”, links that take you to interesting and offbeat places on the www.
And as always, be sure to scroll all the way to guess our actor and movie of the week. If you guess correctly, your name could be in next week’s Surfin’ Safari!
Find it all at World Net Daily on the Diversions page where we post a new Surfin’ Safari every Monday evening. And if you missed this week’s? Here it is.
26 Friday Nov 2010
Posted in American Spirit
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Posted at Blogs Lucianne Loves…
Next season on Dancing with The Stars:
An oldie but a goody
It could happen
Did you read Sarah’s newest message via her Facebook page? It’s a pissah…
26 Friday Nov 2010
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Hat Tip: Birther Report
“When you talk about jihad, that is exactly what Obama has against America, specifically the state of Arizona. Think about it. This is the first time in the history of the United States that a sitting President has sided with a foreign government to sue the citizens of its country. For defending our laws? For defending and protecting the citizens of the state of Arizona? It’s outrageous and it’s impeachable.”
24 Wednesday Nov 2010
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Happy Thanksgiving!
The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy! – Psalm 126.3
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“We pray this year, not only in the spirit of thanksgiving but also as suppliants for wisdom in our approach to the problems confronting this Nation. Believing in the dignity of man and his right to live in freedom and peace, we ask divine guidance in helping to safeguard these gifts for ourselves and other peoples of the earth.” – Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1948
24 Wednesday Nov 2010
Posted in American Spirit
Ulsterman talks again with the mysterious “White House Insider”. Believe it if you will…
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Ulsterman writes:
Author’s Note: This interview took place just prior to Nancy Pelosi’s successful bid to remain as the House Democratic Party leader was known.
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Ulsterman: …The birther thing? You heard something on that?
Insider: I sure as -expletive- did. And they said it came from Pelosi herself…
Ulsterman: Yeah? So…
Insider: Oh, I thought I’d just leave it at that! Yeah – that’s it! (laughs)
Ulsterman: C’mon, knock it off. Did you hear anything or not?
Insider: Now don’t go crying on me kid…you are one uptight dude…ok then – yeah, I was told somethin’ related to that birther stuff. Directly or indirectly, hell if I know. Speaker Pelosi been mouthin’ off against the president for some time now, right?
Ulsterman: Yeah – I think you’ve said that a few times before.
Insider: Well, she was at it again and then she says something along the lines of, “How about I just hand over the goddamn certification file. They want me to go there? Because that’s where they’re pushing me.”
Ulsterman: Certification file? What is that? Do you mean certificate file? Birth certificate?
Insider: Hell if I know – no…it was certification file – assume it has something to do with the whole birther thing – eligibility maybe? Just thought you might want to hear it. Just thought you might find it…interesting! It’s an odd thing to say, right? And it’s even odder that it was said like that period. The person who shared it with me thought so. Then again, they also said Pelosi was for certain heading out of Congress not so long ago, so who knows anymore. Looks like she’s clawing her way back in, the tough old -expletive-. But if you want to chase that particular tail in a circle I thought I’d throw you that bone. Go fetch! (laughs) …I don’t mean to laugh. Hell, fact is people are talking about this subject. Nobody wants to admit it in the open, but they are talking about it. Or whispering at least – but I want nothing to do with that -expletive-. Something like that will get your ass killed. No joke. But there it is – call it a peace offering for my rudeness to you in that last email.
Ulsterman: What am I supposed to do with that? You already said the birther stuff was not related to the White House scandals that are supposed to be coming soon. And if you want nothing to do with it why would you even bring it up? You put out the idea of a big scandal or scandals coming and then throw out birther information. One isn’t related to the other? You sure about that?
Insider: Oh, they’re not – no-no-no. Forget I even mentioned it. Just-just forget that. Nonsense. All of it nonsense. And if it ain’t…I ain’t touchin’ the birther garbage or the missile garbage or the gay club in Chicago garbage, or the gay lover -expletive- , or anything else that the nutjobs out there have thought up. No different than people running around saying Bush caused 9-11, or Cheney goes around shootin’ people in the face! (laughs) -Expletive- country needs to grow up! No, let’s just stick to the real deal, right? Because THAT is what is going to kick the president’s ass – and I’m talking kick that ass right to the goddamn curb! You got that? TO – THE – CURB. You hear the reporting – it’s out there. You read it, right? We got the DOJ, we got the bank closures, we got the Rezko sentencing, we got the Blagotrial…all this -expletive – and more…everything is coming together. Everything that has been ignored for too long is finally getting some attention. And these dogs will hunt – I guarantee you that. Those Republicans on the Hill? Oh yeah, those little -expletive- are gonna bring the hammer down on this. They are gonna break every damn thing open until they find it – and they are gonna get help from some Democrats along the way. And you know the president knows it. His people know it. They are all hunkered down, eyes shifting this way and that, wonderin’ if it’s gonna be this scandal or that scandal or this, that, and the other scandal. One is gonna lead to one is gonna lead to the other.
Ulsterman: But if Pelosi keeps her leadership position, and it looks like she will —
Insider: I wouldn’t bank on that just yet – we got more and more people telling her to step the -expletive- down. Stand aside. Don’t be surprised to be surprised on that. I said she was done as Speaker, and I was right on that. I said she-she didn’t have the support to be party leader and I still stand by that. Still standin’!
Ulsterman: What if she does stay on as Minority Leader? Any effect on the scandal? Investigations? The Obama White House?
Insider: The number one impact is on the Democratic Party – and it would be a terrible-terrible thing for us. It’s inconceivable. Do you get that? Keep in place the same damn party leadership that cost us to lose 60 odd seats in the House? Why in the hell would we do that? Why? There is just no damn way the party is that stupid. No. Cannot be.
Ulsterman: What other impacts? Complications?
Insider: Of Pelosi staying on as party leader? Plenty. For one, it makes me question myself – my information, and that would make me very-very nervous. I don’t like to receive surprises. Like to give them. Don’t like to get them. That would be a nasty little surprise come my way.
Ulsterman: But why? Why does it matter if Nancy Pelosi stays or goes as party leader?
Insider: Do I need to talk a little slower here? Hello? Hello? (laughs) See that photo? (points to picture of Insider and -name withheld-) Now that White House took some incoming, let me tell you. We were up to it with all that-that Republican -expletive- they threw at us. I mean every -expletive- day. Day after day after day it was something else. But we weren’t surprised – we were rarely surprised I should say. We always had an idea of what was coming. What was next, right? So you can sidestep all that -expletive- and just keep on walking. You survive to bury your enemies, right? But that kind of thing takes the right information, it takes reliable people telling you the right things. We had that. I was told Pelosi was gone. “DC toast” I was told. Many times, by people who should know. If she were to actually stay on, that throws the whole process into suspicion. Now I can’t trust my own judgement, let alone what someone else is telling me, right? You get that-that, what I’m sayin’? Pelosi being gone is part of the deal, the-the-the process by which the White House is in for a real old fashioned Washington D.C. ass kicking. Hell, from my perspective, her staying on might very well signal a deal breaker. A goddamn deal breaker! But that ain’t gonna happen. No sir. Unless I’m wrong of course – then this thing is a cluster -expletive- multiple times over.
Ulsterman: I’m still not understanding why Pelosi being in or out is such a big deal. You’re not making that clear.
Insider: Or you’re not listening…
Ulsterman: No, I’m listening. You’re not explaining it.
Insider: (Hands cover face – then looks back at me.) Ok…ok, here…here is – I strongly suspect Nancy Pelosi has certain information, or parts of information, that-that would be essential to helping certain investigations against the White House. Investigations that could lead all the way to the top. It was my understanding that Pelosi had decided to let this information be known to others, say members of a committee, in her…absence. She would be gone, living the good life out there in California, not part of the investigations, not the cause of the disclosure, you know, that kind of scenario – though I think she has let some stuff get out there already as a way of telling the White House to back the -expletive- off. But by laying back on all of it, she would have necessary separation from it all. Do you understand?
Ulsterman: Better, yeah. Keep going…
Insider: Ok, so if I’m being told this, being told repeatedly that Speaker Pelosi has had it with the White House, has had it with the president, is gonna help send them all packin’ away to political has-been street, and then she actually stays on as party leader, that means something happened. Something changed from what I am being told. Or somebody got it wrong – and either way, I can be -expletive- over on this whole thing. Do you realize how powerful a Speaker of the House really is? And Pelosi is about as tough a Speaker as I’ve seen. Tough-though lady. Not someone you wanna make an enemy of, right? So…if-if…if she stays on as party leader, that means she was got to. That means she made a deal. And if she was gonna help crack heads over at the White House, that means she probably made a deal with them, right? And that means this information she was supposed to help leak out there to the rest of us, to others, will probably disappear.
Ulsterman: But the Republicans will control Congress. Pelosi won’t be Speaker. Seems like that information would still get out there. Why wouldn’t it?
Insider: Because the only way the White House would agree to a deal is if they were given that information to keep for themselves or had assurances it as no longer available. They are not going to just allow Pelosi to keep holding it over them. You see, the White House was sending out strong signals that Pelosi must go. I know this. I heard it first hand from members of Congress. She is gone. So if she all of a sudden stays, and stays as leader of the party, that means the White House stopped pushing for her to be gone. And that means a deal was made. And THAT means I’m left scrambling for cover in all of this. And so is everyone who has been talking to me. The Republicans don’t take over until 2011, right? Whatever information Pelosi has on Obama – and she has it. Don’t you doubt that. She’s got it. Well, that information could easily be no more by January. Bye-bye, gone. Replaced, misplaced – never was, never will be again. That -expletive- happens all the time. I mean all the time.
Ulsterman: You say that from personal experience?
Insider: No comment. And -expletive- you for asking.
Ulsterman: All right… how about you lay out for me how this scandal is going to go down – IF it goes down? How do you see it developing?
Insider: Developing? Hell, it’s developed! It’s a living, breathing monster out there right now! What did I tell you before – what was it – weeks ago? Months ago? That was you, right? I said watch the DOJ -that place is a mess and it’s about to get a rash of -expletive- come down on it. That is where I said all of this will start to unravel… I said it’ll start in Washington DC and then move on out to Chicago – and when that happens, this White House is in some deep -expletive-. They are gonna be swimming in it. And dimes to dollars Pelosi has some of the information. And when she steps aside, or is voted down, or whatever form it takes, then that information will be heading to the people who want to see it do the most damage to the Obama White House. And then the calls for someone to lead the party back to relevance will happen. And then comes the primary challenge in 2012. First the ice breaker challenger, and then the real deal – Hillary Clinton. And God keep her safe because we need her. How many people who voted Obama in those primaries, how many of those people now regret it? Oh man, there are a ton of those people! A ton of ‘em. Course, if this scandal goes into overdrive mode sooner rather than-than later, hell, you might just see Barack Obama say he don’t wanna run for a second term. I’d call it a long shot at this point, but you never know. You never know. Did you see the guy on TV the other day? He looked like he was runnin’on ’bout two hours sleep! You ever see clips of Elvis tryin’ to talk to an audience in those last years of his? The slurring, mumbling, the unfocused eyes? That’s our president! God help us all – that’s Obama! President Elvis -expletive- Obama! He’s either really-really tired all the time, or he’s over medicated, or he’s both. I keep waitin’ for him to say, “Thank yah…Thank yah very much,” at end of one of his speeches! (laughs) Ladies and gentlemen, Obama has left the building! We all wish, huh?
Ulsterman: Not a bad impression – you really think Hillary Clinton wants to be president? You have been on that this whole time. You really think she wants it? Would be willing to run in 2012?
Insider: Hell yes she wants it! You run for president – that stays in your blood man. It’s in your DNA. That never goes away. NEVER. But more than that, Hillary Clinton needs to run for president. – not for herself. For the party. For the country. She should run for president. She must run for president. And anyone who tries to say Hillary Clinton would be no better than Barack Obama – shut it. Open your damn eyes. Look around. -Expletive- anyone who says Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be better than this clueless train wreck we elected in 2008. Hillary Clinton could be a better president than Bill – and Bill Clinton was the best president we’ve had since…hell, FDR. And don’t you start in about Reagan because I don’t want to hear it! (laughs) I’m a Democrat kid – always will be. And so was Reagan before he found religion! (more laughter)
Ulsterman: So is the president…so is Obama…a Democrat.
Insider: (Laughter stops) Nooooo – I don’t know what he is, but he ain’t no Democrat. He’s Barack Obama. He’s in it for himself, but he ain’t no Democrat. He’s an entirely different thing altogether. People are seeing that now – more are anyways. No, this guy is destroying Democrats, destroying the party. He ain’t no Democrat. Hell, maybe, just maybe, all that birther -expletive- is right. Or maybe half right, huh? Maybe he ain’t even an American. But I ain’t getting my -expletive- wet on that one. No – you go on and help yourself to to all that nonsense if you want.
Ulsterman: By the time this is published, we will know if the Democrats kept Pelosi as the party leader. So what do we do if she does actually stay on?
Insider: Duck and cover kid. Duck and -expletive- cover…
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