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Carrie Prejean is a role model for the youth of the world. Or at least the youth of Spain.

Our position on this is clear: if masturbation becomes part of the curriculum in the United States, we’d rather be in Carrie Prejean’s class than Joycelyn Elders’.

carrie-prejean Discretion is our middle name. So we think we’ll just let US Magazine reveal the latest Carrie Prejean news:

Days after Carrie Prejean admitted that she participated in a sex tape and called it “the biggest mistake of my life,” seven additional such videos — all “solo performances” have surfaced starring the de-crowned beauty queen.

In addition, the website says that 30 photographs of Prejean have turned up of the topless and fully nude variety, “most taken by Carrie using her reflection in the mirror.”

Allegedly, in one clip, a moaning Prejean wears “just a flowing white blouse,” touching herself suggestively.

But all is not lost for the former Miss California. Despite the revelation of more sex tapes, Prejean can still be a role model for Spanish teenagers. Because according to the New York Daily News via Fox, Spanish teens are now being taught the “art of self pleasure.”
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Teenagers in the Spanish region of Extremadura are being taught the “art” of masturbation, New York’s Daily News reported.

The workshops feature instructions on self-pleasuring, and pamphlets on self-respect and contraception are being handed out, according to a report in The Guardian.The socialist government’s aim is to aid teens with “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure.” The government hopes to remove the “mystique” that surrounds sex.

“The campaign is simple, clear, natural and easily understood by the people it is aimed at, who are aged between 14 and 17,” said Laura Garrido, a youth council president in Extremadura.

This reminds us of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who advocated masturbation education back in the Clinton years.

Our position on this is clear: if masturbation becomes part of the curriculum in the United States, we’d rather be in Carrie Prejean’s class than Joycelyn Elders’.

We’d rush home every night to do our homework. Especially if we could do it while watching some of those Carrie Prejean tapes.

Source: US Magazine, FoxNews.com

Butt out! Gallup poll says Americans don’t want government healthcare

Support for government run healthcare has fallen off a cliff. In fact, more Americans now want the government to butt out rather than butt in. Here’s how Gallup.com reports its latest poll.

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The Greatest Orator In History is having a big impact on the opinions of the American people. But not in the way his handlers expected.

Support for government run healthcare has fallen off a cliff. In fact, more Americans now want the government to butt out rather than butt in.

Here’s how Gallup.com reports its latest poll:

More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government’s responsibility.

There’s only one thing you can do to save government run healthcare, Mr. Obama:

Begin speaking in favor of it.

Souce: Gallup.com

Obama announces job summit, blames unemployment on employers

Unemployment’s now at 10.2%. And he blames unemployment on employers. What’s the President’s solution? A jobs summit.

Unemployment’s now at 10.2%. What’s the President’s solution? A jobs summit.

Here’s what President Press Event had to say about eeeeeevil employers who are screwing up his dandy economy:

As I’ve said from the start of this crisis, hiring often takes time to catch up to economic growth. And given the magnitude of the economic turmoil that we’ve experienced, employers are reluctant to hire.

Small businesses and large firms are demanding more of their employees, their increasing their hours, and adding temporary workers — but these companies have not yet been willing to take the steps necessary to hire again.

Words fail. Much like Obama’s economic policies.

President Obama vehemently opposes lobbyists. Except when he vehemently favors them.

“I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA.” – President Obama, November 5. If you don’t like what the President Obama says, just wait. Won’t be long before he says the opposite.

obama-pensive “It is an indisputable fact that in recent years, lobbyists for major special interests have wielded extraordinary power in Washington DC, resulting in a national agenda too often skewed in favor of the interests that can afford their services. It is that problem that the President has promised to change.”
– White House blog, October 21

“I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA.”
– President Obama, November 5

If you don’t like what the President Obama says, just wait. Won’t be long before he says the opposite.

Source: Wall Street Journal/Best of the Web

Chrysler’s electric car program shorts out

Chrysler has disbanded a team of engineers dedicated to rushing a range of electric vehicles to showrooms and dropped ambitious sales targets for battery-powered cars set as it was sliding toward bankruptcy and seeking government aid.

The Chrysler Peapod has come to the end of the road
The Chrysler Peapod has come to the end of the road

Chrysler, part of the Obama Motors cabal, says its electric cars are dead. Not the batteries, the whole damn program. A huge pile of your tax dollars were at its bedside when it died.

Fox News reports Detroit’s latest tale of woe:

Chrysler has disbanded a team of engineers dedicated to rushing a range of electric vehicles to showrooms and dropped ambitious sales targets for battery-powered cars set as it was sliding toward bankruptcy and seeking government aid.

The move by Fiat SpA marks a major reversal for Chrysler, which had used its electric car program as part of the case for a $12.5 billion federal aid package.

As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a test fleet of 220 hybrid pickup trucks and minivans, vehicles now scrapped in the sweeping turnaround plan for Chrysler announced this week by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne.

So Chrysler used the electric car scam to get a $12.5 billion bailout and then took another $70 million in grants and now they’re closing down the program less than 90 days later?

Bait and switch from a car dealer. Who ever would have expected that?

Source: Fox News

Good for thee, but not for me: Congressional Democrats don’t want to be covered by ObamaCare

Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.

Czar Nicholas. Or maybe a Congressional Democrat. We're not sure which.
Czar Nicholas. Or maybe a Congressional Democrat. We're not sure which.

Life is good for Democrats in Congress. Kind of like life was good for the Russian Czars (not to be confused with the Obama Czars). They pass laws and regulations willy-nilly with nary a thought that those laws and regulations should apply to them.

CNSnews.com reports that, “Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.”

“If Congress forces our constituents into a public option plan over time,” noted Rep. Howard McKeon, a California Republican, “then members of Congress should be expected to do the same.”

“It became apparent then that Democrats are afraid of being put on a government-run health care program,” McKeon added, “but that fear does not extend to the welfare of their own constituents.”

“This is one of those classic hypocritical moments for the Democrats,” said Matt Lavoie, a spokesman for Representative Wally Herger, a California Republican. “They simply don’t want to put up with the public option that they are preparing to inflict on the American public.”

Could this be true? Of course not. Don’t be silly. Nothing could be further from the truth according to Vincent Morris, communications director for the Democrat-controlled House Rules Committee.

“The reason we didn’t support those amendments is because the public option was created precisely to give the American people a choice between private and public [insurance], Morris noted. “Given that all Americans have a choice about whether to join the public option, we thought it didn’t make any sense to force members of Congress to join.”

Bottom line: We’re amazed to see the words “sense” and “Congress” in the same sentence.

Source: CNSnews.com

History repeats itself: Obama doesn’t get that national anthem thing

Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the National Anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t get it.

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Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the national anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t.

Maybe things would have been different if they’d been playing the Kenyan national anthem.

It’s going to be a long, cold winter for Al Gore’s TV network

Current TV, Al Gore’s nearly viewerless cable news channel, is slashing its its staff by 80 people. But do not make the mistake of thinking the layoffs had anything to do with cutting costs. Hell, no. The company said it’s all part of a reshifting of priorities.

At Current TV, a smile is just a frown turned upside down
At Current TV, a smile is just a frown turned upside down

Current TV, Al Gore’s nearly viewerless cable news channel, is slashing its its staff by 80 people.

But do not make the mistake of thinking the layoffs had anything to do with cutting costs. Hell, no. The company said it’s all part of a reshifting of priorities.

The priorities that reshifted were, of course, the company’s and not the employees’.

Here’s how Current attempted to spin the bad news:

This re-organization was not the result of a need to cut costs. Current Media will have its most profitable year. This financial stability will allow the company to re-allocate resources in order to put further emphasis on areas of the business believed to best position Current Media for continued long-term growth.

Not the most believable spin in the history of American business. As Gawker.com noted, “…when a company cuts 80 employees from a total staff of 380, it’s pretty absurd to claim this 21 percent payroll decrease isn’t about reducing costs, especially after the network cut 60 jobs a year ago.”

In other news, the Obama administration announced that although 80 jobs had been slashed at Current TV, 300 had been saved or created.

All hail the Goracle. All hail the stimulus.

Source: Gawker

Congresswoman wants to crack down dangerous religious extremists

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat from California, says the government needs to wake up and take a close look at the dangerous religious extremists who live among us. Catholics?

You can sleep soundly tonight, America, secure in the knowledge that Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is out to get the evil Catholics
You can sleep soundly tonight, America, secure in the knowledge that Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is out to get the evil Catholics

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat from California, says the government needs to wake up and take a close look at the dangerous religious extremists who live among us.

Congratulations, Congresswomen Woolsey. It’s about time someone challenges those murderous Muslims.

What’s that? Woolsey wasn’t talking about murderous Muslims? She was talking about Catholics?

Yes, sir and yes, maam. Woolsey wants the IRS to investigate the possibility that the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops did something – anything, really – during the ObamaCare debate that might threaten its tax-exempt status. In a direct violation of the separation of church and state, Woolsey is almost praying that the IRS can dig up some dirt.

Job well done, Congresswoman Woolsey. We, too, have had our eye on those Catholics for a long time and we say it’s about time someone else catches on to them.

Those Saturday night bingo games are obviously terrorist fundraisers. And who really knows what the St. Vincent DePaul Society is doing with those old shirts we gave them.

Shape up, Catholics. Uncle Sam knows what you’re up to.

Source: National Review

Michelle Obama, the Most Fashionable First Lady Ever

C’mon, now, surely this ensemble will convince even the most ardent Michelle Obama worshippers that Michelle Obama is not America’s First Lady of Fashion. She showed dressed like your grandmother at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day.

michelle-obama C’mon, now, surely this ensemble will convince even the most ardent Michelle Obama worshippers that Michelle Obama is not America’s First Lady of Fashion.

She showed dressed like your grandmother at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day.

OK, maybe your grandmother never wore disco boots and maybe she wasn’t built like an NFL linebacker, but if she had and if she was, she would have looked something like this.

And one more thing: enough with the ammobelt, Michelle. Nobody’s looked good wearing one since Pancho Villa.

Obama Berlin speech vs. Apple’s 1984 commercial

Are we the only ones who thought of Apple’s famous “1984” commercial when we saw Obama’s videotaped Fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall speech? Obama’s speech even comes with the right echo.

Are we the only ones who thought of Apple’s famous “1984” commercial when we saw Obama’s videotaped Fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall speech? Obama’s speech even comes with the right echo.

Kind of eerie, isn’t it?

Moron Montel Williams fears America will send Muslims to internment camps

Remember back when Montel Williams promoted his sleazy TV show the the slogan, “Montel brings people together”? Well, apparently, he’s against bringing them together in internment camps. Especially if they’re Muslim.

Remember back when Montel Williams promoted his sleazy TV show the the slogan, “Montel brings people together?”

Well, apparently, he’s against bringing them together in internment camps. Especially if they’re Muslim.

Here’s an excerpt from his conversation with Frank Farley of Temple University:

Williams: We pulled something like this back in World War II when we decided to round up all Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps…The [anti-Muslim] rhetoric… could get out of hand. What do you think?

Farley: I agree totally… The possibilities of prejudice and racism and so on are incredible here. We should be treating this as a unique incident and look at the factors involved in this very unique and specific incident and not overgeneralize. Unfortunately, we tend to overgeneralize all the time. The idea that all Muslims are the same is ridiculous…

Williams: Even if it comes out… that his frame of reference was his religion and that was what was giving him the power within himself to make his stand, that doesn’t mean that the religion is to blame.

Farley: Absolutely, his interpretation [of Islam] may vary dramatically from [that of] his fellow Muslims.

Let us state very clearly that we are opposed to internment camps for Muslims.

On the other hand, interment camps for Air America hosts isn’t such a bad idea.

Source: The Radio Equalizer

University invokes “academic freedom,” invites convicted terrorist bomber to speak

The on-again off-again appearance of a convicted terrorist bomber is back on again at the University of Massachusetts.

Raymond Luc Levasseur, bomber, bank robber and symbol of academic freedom
Raymond Luc Levasseur, bomber, bank robber and symbol of academic freedom

The on-again off-again appearance of a convicted terrorist bomber is back on again at the University of Massachusetts.

UMass had decided that Raymond Luc Levasseur, one-time leader of the revolutionary United Freedom Front, will be allowed to speak on campus. Despite protests, the university says the bomber and bank robber speech reinforces its commitment to “academic freedom.”

Levasseur was sprung from the pen in 2004 after serving 18 years for plotting a series of bombings and bank robberies up and down the East Coast between 1976 and 1984. The UFF also killed a New Jersey state trooper and attempted to kill two others in Massachusetts.

“He shouldn’t be allowed to talk to any students,” said Rick Brown, president of the State Police Association. “Why give this man any credibility to speak in an academic environment? He has no remorse and who knows if he’s out to recruit. UMass should be ashamed of themselves for even inviting this man on campus.”

Please, Mr. Brown, don’t be so strident. Where will the next generation of terrorists come from if the elders are not allowed to pass their knowledge down to the children?

Source: Fox News

CNN says it’s impartial, but its audience says otherwise

CNN proudly claims its brand was built on impartial reporting. But the compositon of its audience says otherwise. Fact is, its audience tilts to the left even more than Fox News audience tilts to the right.

Now that Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN, the network's direction is clear
Now that Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN, the network's direction is clear

CNN proudly claims its brand was built on impartial reporting. But the compositon of its audience says otherwise. Fact is, its audience tilts to the left even more than Fox News audience tilts to the right.

Breitbart.com did a very interesting analysis of CNN’s audience:

Statistically, CNN’s audience is far from nonpartisan.

Of people who say their main source of news is CNN, 46 percent identify themselves as Democrats and 13 percent as Republicans, according to a July survey by the Pew Research Center (the rest say they’re independent or don’t identify themselves politically). The same study found that Fox’s main source audience was 38 percent Republican and 18 percent Democratic.

To a certain degree, it stands to reason: If so many Republicans find Fox a comfortable home, there are fewer remaining for CNN, particularly in a country where Democrats have an enrollment edge.

One-third of news viewers questioned by Pew this fall said they didn’t perceive CNN as advancing an ideology, more than Fox (24 percent) or MSNBC (27 percent). Still, 37 percent of those questioned view CNN as liberal, and 11 percent as conservative.

We don’t want to say CNN’s audience is shrinking, but if it loses any more viewers, future pollsters won’t be able to put together a valid, representative sample.

Source: Breitbart.com

Veterans Day, Part Deux: 33 incredible combat videos from Iraq

One day isn’t enough to honor America’s vets. So let’s do it again today. The things they do to protect the rest of us pansies is incredible, as is evidenced by this compilation of 33 incredible combat videos from Iraq.

One day isn’t enough to honor America’s vets. So let’s do it again today.

The things they do to protect the rest of us pansies is incredible, as is evidenced by this compilation of 33 incredible combat videos from Iraq.

Source: LiveLeak

Obama blinks, will do interview on Fox News

The war between President Obama and Fox News is over. And it ended exactly as most observers expected: President Obama surrendered faster than the French army. According to Drudge, Major Garrett will conduct the interview next week during the President’s China visit.

Major Garrett, White House correspondent for a well-known non-news network, will interview President Obama
Major Garrett, White House correspondent for a well-known non-news network, will interview President Obama will interview

The war between President Obama and Fox News is over. And it ended exactly as most observers expected: President Obama surrendered faster than the French army.

According to Drudge, Major Garrett will conduct the interview next week during the President’s China visit.

Oddly enough, this happens the day after White House Propaganda Communications Director Anita Dunn, the Joseph Goebbels of the Obama administration, announced that she was leaving the White House.

But please do not make the mistake of thinking that Dunn’s “resignation” had anything to do with the Fox News dust up that she directed. Of course not.

In fact, she will return to the White House as a “consultant,” which allows the White House to count this as yet another job created or saved.

Lou Dobbs lobs grenade, walks out on CNN contract

Controversial CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, whose CNN contract runs through 2011, unexpectedly announced his “retirement” – effective immediately – on his Wednesday show.

Controversial CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, whose CNN contract runs through 2011, unexpectedly announced his “retirement” – effective immediately – on his Wednesday show.

Over the past six months, it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us.

And some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond my role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving, as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day. And to continue to do so in the most direct and honest language possible.

“Going beyond my role here at CNN”. Translation: I’m tired of serving as a punching bag for illegal alien rights groups with no support from CNN’s management.

What’s next for Dobbs? A new show on Fox? A political career? Working the red carpet at next year’s Latin Grammy Awards?

Stay tuned.

Source: LA Times

Obama phones in Berlin Wall speech, praises himself (or Himself)

President Obama still managed to find time to phone in a speech from an undisclosed part of the White House on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But you can bet he won’t be too busy to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize in person.

In between whatever he was so busy with, President Obama still managed to find time to phone in a speech from an undisclosed part of the White House on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But you can bet he won’t be too busy to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize in person.

During his prerecorded speech, President Obama made this self-referential observation, “Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.”

Few would have also foreseen how the One would deftly work in a tribute to Himself during his tribute to the fall of the Wall. However, Obama’s Teleprompter somehow forgot to mention Communism, the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or Pope John Paul.

In Obama’s telling, the Wall just got built by itself, and was mysteriously torn down one day for no apparent reason.

Source: HotAir.com

When is a tax not a tax? When it’s an interest-free loan.

If you work in California you may want to do a quick paycheck comparison and check this week’s pay stub against last week’s. Californians are beginning November with a 10% increase in their paycheck withholding.

big-taxes Californians, don’t you worry about your state being bankrupt. Rest assured that your elected representatives in Sacramento are working tirelessly to spread the poverty around and make sure the entire citizenry is equally bereft.

If you work in California you may want to do a quick paycheck comparison and check this week’s pay stub against last week’s. Californians are beginning November with a 10% increase in their paycheck withholding.

The LA Times reassuringly reports that “Technically, it’s not a tax increase,” it’s “part of a bundle of budget patches.” So what does that mean? Lawmakers aren’t exactly sure, they just know they need the extra cash.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Sacramento’s Democrat legislature and the RINO Governator are trying to close a “gaping budget deficit, now estimated to be $7 billion this year and reach as high as $20 billion next.”

Will this little “loan” close the deficit? Well, no. “The extra withholding tax will reduce Californians’ take-home pay by about $1.7 billion for the year. But the lawmakers say this isn’t a tax increase. OK, how about calling it a compulsory interest-free loan from taxpayers to the state?”

The Journal also questions the reliability of the Golden State’s representatives to guard the gold, as it were. “And we almost hate to ask: What happens come April if the state doesn’t have enough money to pay the tax refunds it owes its citizens? Will taxpayers get IOUs the way state contractors did last year when Sacramento ran out of money?”

Have the pols in Sacramento thought that far ahead? We’re not going to hazard a prediction. But if we can achieve Universal Heath Care For All and a smaller carbon footprint by next year, then by god, whatever happens to taxpayers is going to be worth it.

Source: Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times

Bad news for global warming fanatics: Greenland’s icecap is getting thicker

Greenland’s icecap has thickened slightly in recent years despite concerns that it is thawing out due to global warming, says an international team of scientists.

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How could this be? How is it possible? We’re ruined.

Based on Al Gore’s assurances that the Greenland icecap was melting and that sea levels were rising, we invested all our spare cash in future beachfront property in South Dakota.

The Australian Broadcasting Company reports the story of our personal economic doom and the current shoreline’s salvation:

Greenland’s icecap has thickened slightly in recent years despite concerns that it is thawing out due to global warming, says an international team of scientists.

A team led by Professor Ola Johannessen, at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, report their findings online ahead of print publication in the journal Science.

The 3,000-metre thick Greenland icecap is a key concern in debates about climate change because a total melt would raise world sea levels by about 7 metres. And a runaway thaw might slow the Gulf Stream that keeps the North Atlantic region warm.

Glaciers at sea level have been retreating fast because of a warming climate, making many other scientists believe the entire icecap is thinning. But satellite measurements showed that more snowfall is falling and thickening the icecap, especially at high altitudes, say Johannessen and team.

The entire IHateTheMedia.com fortune is tied up in that South Dakota land. That’s what we get for listening to Gore.

Source: Reuters via ABC.gov.au

President Obama: “No healthcare insurance? Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go.”

During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.

President Obama is playing Monopoly again. Except this time it’s with 1/6 of the American economy.

During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.

monopoly go to jail card Sure, he stopped short of calling for jail time, but his hesitance to do so is undoubtedly borne out of an intense desire to avoid yet another conservative firestorm.

“What I think is appropriate,” Obama said, “is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are — are burdened by because of the fact that people don’t have health insurance, you know, there’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”

The only problem with Obama’s version of Monopoly (let’s call it “Obamanopoly”) is that he’s added one new rule:

If he runs out of money, he just takes a little from all the other players.

Source: MofoPolitics.com

Veterans Day salute: The Warrior Song

The only reason Barack Obama can go around the world spewing his nonsensical pablum about “engaging our enemies” is because there are American military people willing to engage them in a way those enemies not only understand, but fear.

The only reason Barack Obama can go around the world spewing his nonsensical pablum about “engaging our enemies” is because there are American military people willing to engage them in a way those enemies not only understand, but fear.

We’re unbelievably grateful for the sacrifices you each make.

Source: Warrior Legacy Foundation via Ace of Spades

The really odd couple: Glenn Beck joins forces with president of PETA

What could possibly bring these two diametrically opposed forces together? Three words: Al Gore, hypocrite.

What could possibly bring these two diametrically opposed forces together? Three words: Al Gore, hypocrite.

Source: PlanetGore

Obama says “the world is a community of nations with more in common than divides us.” Americans divided on the issue.

What the hell do we have in common with Saudi Arabia other than their oil? With China other than their cheap labor? With Tonga other than, well, we don’t know what the hell we have in common with Tonga? Foreign aid, maybe.

How much do you have in common with these Ukrainian peasants
How much do you have in common with these Ukrainian peasants

One of President Obama’s most grating platitudes is the one that says that the world is a community of nations with more in common than that which divides us. Blah-blah-blah.

Chalk up another Obama-ism that the American people aren’t buying. At least that’s what a new Rasmussen Reports poll says:

But just 32% of U.S. voters agree with the idea that the world is a community of nations, more alike than different in outlook and interest. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% disagree and 24% are not sure.

A solid plurality of Democrats (47%) share Obama’s global perspective, but 60% of Republicans and 49% of voters of voters not affiliated with either party don’t think the president’s right.

You really can’t blame the American people for blowing off the President on this one. The concept sounds like it was written by a United Nations bureaucrat in search of a million dollar grant. The words sound noble as well as Nobel, but they’re completely empty. It’s just another case of Obama ignoring – or forgetting – America’s exceptionalism.

What the hell do we have in common with Saudi Arabia other than their oil? With China other than their cheap labor? With Tonga other than, well, we don’t know what the hell we have in common with Tonga? Foreign aid, maybe.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

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