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Get it straight, Phil was sidelined for his personal beliefs, not religious ones.

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Statement from A&E on Phil Robertson,

“We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and not reflected in the series Duck Dynasty,” a statement from the network read. “His personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely.”



Phil's own personal beliefs that he expressed:

"It seems like to me, a vagina -- as a man -- would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”


GLADD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is upset with Phil, but for different reasons, religious reasons.  Their statement:

“Phil and his family claim to be Christian, but Phil’s lies about an entire community fly in the face of what true Christians believe. He clearly knows nothing about gay people or the majority of Louisianans — and Americans — who support legal recognition for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples. Phil’s decision to push vile and extreme stereotypes is a stain on A&E and his sponsors who now need to reexamine their ties to someone with such public disdain for LGBT people and families.”

"Phil's lies"..."what true Christians believe" Ok, let's look at Phil's religious statements and 'the lies':

“Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong,” he told GQ. “Sin becomes fine.” He also paraphrased Corinthians: “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. Don’t be deceived. Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”

“We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job,” Robertson continued. “We just love ’em, give ’em the good news about Jesus—whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ’em out later, you see what I’m saying?”

So according to GLAAD these are lies and not what 'true Christians' believe. Well, the Pope is still considered a true Christian isn't he? He's Time's Person of the Year for 2013, but that doesn't make him the anti-Christ. In fact, Time said they selected him because :

And so Francis signals great change while giving the same answers to the uncomfortable questions. On the question of female priests: “We need to work harder to develop a profound theology of the woman.” Which means: no. No to abortion, because an individual life begins at conception. No to gay marriage, because the male-female bond is established by God. “The teaching of the church … is clear,” he has said, “and I am a son of the church, but”—and here he adds his prayer for himself—“it is not necessary to talk about those issues all the time.”

If that prayer should be answered, if somehow by his own vivid example Francis could bring the church into a new relationship with its critics and dissidents—agreeing to disagree about issues that divide them while cooperating in the urgent mission of spreading mercy—he might unleash untold good. “Argue less, accomplish more” could be a healing motto for our times...

The Advocate, the leading gay rights magazine also selected the Pope for their person of the year. Their reasoning :

The remaining holdouts for LGBT acceptance in religion, the ones who block progress in the work left to do, will more likely be persuaded by a figure they know. In the same way that President Obama transformed politics with his evolution on LGBT civil rights, a change from the pope could have a lasting effect on religion.

Pope Francis's stark change in rhetoric from his two predecessors — both who were at one time or another among The Advocate's annual Phobie Awards — makes what he's done in 2013 all the more daring… Pope Francis is still not pro-gay by today's standard. He started his term by issuing a joint encyclical in July with Benedict, in which they reiterate that marriage should be a “stable union of man and woman.” It continues, “This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgement and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation.”

…As pope, he has not yet said the Catholic Church supports civil unions. But what Francis does say about LGBT people has already caused reflection and consternation within his church. The moment that grabbed headlines was during a flight from Brazil to Rome. When asked about gay priests, Pope Francis told reporters, according to a translation from Italian, "If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?"

The brevity of that statement and the outsized attention it got immediately are evidence of the pope's sway. His posing a simple question with very Christian roots, when uttered in this context by this man, "Who am I to judge?" became a signal to Catholics and the world that the new pope is not like the old pope.



Phil said "We never, ever judge someone..." The Pope said "Who am I to judge?" No much daylight between them. Yet Pope Francis is Man of the Year and Phil is on hiatus. Why? Could it be because Time magazine and The Advocate selectively quoted the Pope when they spoke positively of his "Who am I to judge?"

Perhaps. Let's look at what is a full reporting of the Pope's "Who am I to judge?" interview to see what he believes:


“I have yet to find anyone who has a business card that says he is gay,” the pontiff said at a press conference in which he addressed the reports of a "gay lobby" within the Vatican.

“They say they exist. If someone is gay, who searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge?” he added. "The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society."

However, Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's teaching that homosexual acts are a sin, Reuters reported..

He added that he thought lobbies of any kind -- including political ones -- were bad.

"The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers. The problem is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse problem," he said.


The Pope reaffirmed that homosexual acts are a sin. Phil Robertson said "Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior..."

From GLAAD's statement on Phil Robertson:

Phil’s decision to push vile and extreme stereotypes is a stain on A&E and his sponsors who now need to reexamine their ties to someone with such public disdain for LGBT people and families.

A&E did reexamine their ties with Phil and has severed it almost completely. From their statement:

His personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely.


Phil was not sidelined for his Christian beliefs. He was sidelined for his personal view of the desirability of a man's anus:

"It seems like to me, a vagina -- as a man -- would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”

Now let us return to the Pope and the interview that opened the minds of Time Magazine and The Advocate:


"The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers. The problem is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse problem," he said."

Betcha Phil Robertson would agree.

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Obama Was Only Following His Mother-in-Law's Advice.

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.When she was at Princeton, her brother [Craig, now a university basketball coach, who was two years ahead of Michelle] called me and said, "Mom, Michelle's here telling people they're not teaching French right." She thought the style was not conversational enough. I told him, "Just pretend you don't know her."'

-- I want to rip Bill Clinton's eyes out. Kidding! See, that's what gets me into trouble : On the campaign trail with Michelle Obama, May 2008, The Guardian


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An illegal immigrant from Kenya busted for drunken driving after nearly striking a cop car in Framingham is the uncle of President Obama, the Herald has learned.

Obama Onyango told cops he wanted to “call the White House” after he was nabbed for OUI on Aug. 24 after nearly plowing his SUV into a police cruiser. He was arraigned Thursday and was ordered held without bail because he was wanted on a federal immigration warrant, officials said.

Mike Rogers, a spokesman for Cleveland immigration attorney Margaret Wong, who is representing Onyango, confirmed that the 67-year-old is the president’s uncle. Wong is the same lawyer who represented the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, in her fight to win asylum last year.

Reached at her apartment in a South Boston public housing complex today, Zeituni Onyango said of her brother’s arrest: “Why don’t you go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washingon, D.C. and ask your president? Not me.” She then hung up on a reporter.

-- Boston Herald, August 23, 2013


The White House had no immediate comment.

-- NYPost August 30, 2013



President Obama's uncle said at a deportation hearing Tuesday that Obama stayed with him while he was a student at Harvard Law School in the 1980s -- despite the White House having said that Obama never met the man.

-- Washington Post, December 4, 2013


Barack Obama wrote in his memoir Dreams From My Father that he learned about "Omar, the uncle who had left for America 25 years ago and had never come back" during a 1987 visit to Kenya.

The future president began studying at Harvard Law School the following year, graduating in 1991. He made no further reference to Uncle Omar in the memoir, which was published in 1995.

-- UK Telegraph, December 4, 2013



"The White House claims that the error was the result of failing to personally ask the president whether he had ever met, let alone lived with, his uncle.

"This time, the White House says, the press office asked the president."

--Daily Caller, December 5, 2013


President Obama acknowledged Thursday that he lived with his Kenyan uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while preparing to attend Harvard Law School, contradicting a statement more than two years ago that the White House had no record of the two ever meeting. [...]

In November 2011, a White House spokesman told the Globe he had no record of the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that scholars believed the two had never met.

The White House never moved to correct the record, until the president’s fiercely private uncle took the witness stand in Boston immigration court two days ago.

--Boston Globe, December 6, 2013






...In the main, Obama relates to his Cabinet the way he relates to the rest of the world. “He’s a total introvert,” the former adviser told me. “He doesn’t need people.” So it hardly matters that Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, is widely seen as quietly capable; she was not front and center in Obama’s public push for health-care reform, a topic that another former senior administration aide now calls the Lord Voldemort of policy questions, the issue that must not be named...

-- Vanity Fair, Team of Mascots, July 2012



And because of its funding sources, it's not impacted by a government shutdown. And these Americans are here with me today because even though the government is closed, a big part of the Affordable Care Act is now open for business.

And for them and millions like them, this is a historic day for a good reason.

It's been a long time coming. But today Americans who have been forced to go without insurance can now visit healthcare.gov and enroll in affordable new plans that offer quality coverage. That starts today.

And people will have six months to sign up. So over the next six months, people are going to have the opportunity, many -- in many cases for the first time in their lives -- to get affordable coverage that they desperately need.

-- President Obama, October 1, 2013, Rose Garden


"Kathleen Sebelius said President Barack Obama didn't hear that there may be problems with the sign-up portal for his signature health care law until it went live on October 1. That's when the site nosedived into a technical abyss."

--CNN, October 23, 2013

"They had been claiming that the Obamacare rollout was his [Obama's] top priority and that he was receiving regular updates, which was inaccurate. And he gave remarks on October 1 about how great it was and that people should go sign up," the aide said. "Assuming that he didn't know that the website didn't work, why did they let him make that speech when they knew it had crashed in testing? Did really no one recommend a delay to the President? It just seems odd."

-- CNN, October 23, 2013


“I was not informed directly that the website would not be working as—the way it was supposed to. Had I been informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying, ‘Boy, this is going to be great.’ You know, I’m accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying, ‘this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity,’ a week before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work. So, clearly, we and I did not have enough awareness about the problems in the website.”

- President Obama, November 14, 2013


PRESIDENT OBAMA: But let's face it. We have had a problem. The Web site hasn't worked the way it's supposed to over these last couple of weeks. And, as a consequence, a lot of people haven't had a chance to see just how good the prices for quality health insurance through these marketplaces really are.

Now, ultimately, this Web site, healthcare.gov, will be the easiest way to shop for and buy these new plans, because you can see all these plans right next to each other and compare prices and see what kind of coverage it provides.

But, look, there is no denying it. Right now, the Web site is too slow. Too many people have gotten stuck. And I am not happy about it. And neither are a lot of Americans who need health care, and they're trying to figure out how they can sign up as quickly as possible.

So, there's no excuse for it. And I take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP. We are working overtime to improve it every day.

Now, unfortunately, there are others who are so locked into the politics of this thing that they won't lift a finger to help their own people.

-- Massachusetts October 30, 2013



"To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare’s rocky rollout — a balky website, muddied White House messaging and sudden sticker shock for individuals forced to buy more expensive health insurance — add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step.

"That may sound like a left-wing conspiracy theory — and the Obama administration itself is so busy defending the indefensible early failings of its signature program that it has barely tried to make this case. But there is a strong factual basis for such a charge.

- Vanity Fair, November 1, 2013


A stunning new study unveiled on Fox News' Hannity finds that President Barack Obama’s White House calendar records just one face-to-face meeting between Obama and his Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the more than three-and-a-half years leading up to the disastrous Obamacare launch.

The startling statistic comes from a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) analysis of Obama’s own official White House calendar, as well as the Politico presidential calendar, and raises new questions about Obama’s executive leadership and management throughout the implementation of his singular legislative achievement.

More alarming still, the president’s schedule lists 277 private meetings with 16 other Cabinet secretaries in the same time span from Obamacare’s March 23, 2010 signing to November 30, 2013. Why Obama would devote so little face time to the person tasked with implementing what he calls his “most important initiative” is presently unclear.

According to the GAI report, technically, the official White House calendar contains zero meetings with Sebelius, as it only reaches back to July 12, 2010. GAI researchers then used the Politico presidential calendar to assess listings between Obamacare’s signing (March 23, 2010) and the first date listed on the White House’s calendar (July 12, 2010). The study also analyzed the entirety of the Politico calendar from March 23, 2010 to November 30, 2013 and found a single mention of an April 21, 2010 joint meeting between Obama, then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Sebelius. [...]

The lack of in-person meetings between Sebelius and Obama may offer new insight into what the New York Times calls a “deeply dysfunctional relationship” between HHS and Obama’s White House chief of staff.

--Breitbart News, December 5, 2013

 

In real life, the guy who looks you in the eye and promises that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan, period” can be expected to tell you, cross his heart, the Benghazi massacre was caused by an anti-Muslim video, and that everything possible was done to save Americans under siege. He can also be expected to run an administration that assures you, even as things fall apart, that the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate, largely secular organization committed to democracy; that Obamacare is not a tax and will dramatically reduce your premiums while cutting spending; that we are experiencing the most transparent administration in history; that the criminally reckless Fast and Furious program was begun by the Bush administration; that the president has cut spending and debt even as he piles trillions more on our tab; that he has excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs; or that an “interim agreement” that explicitly allows Iran to enrich uranium — and that anticipates a final accord establishing a permanent uranium “enrichment program” for Iran — somehow does not recognize an Iranian right to enrich uranium and so portend a revolutionary jihadist regime possessed of nuclear bombs.

Though never desirable, presidential fraud might be tolerable if this were 1995 again. But it is not — our times are grave. Unlike the days of the Clinton bender, the question is not how the president is going to survive another fine mess he’s gotten himself into. The question is how we are going to survive this president.

-- Andy McCarthy, Politics Is Not A Soap Opera

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If You Think Health Care But It's Not, It's Obamacare.

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When Obama gave his "apology" last week he stepped in it with women. His apology was out of the total cad playbook;

"It's unfortunate you believed it when I said I cared for you (over 30 times)."

Obama promised women (over 30 times) if they liked your healthcare, they'd keep it. He also promised them (over 30 times) they could keep their doctors and their health care costs would go down. These promises have turned out to be lies. Lies he knew were lies when he said them. The deeper problem is that the lies were part of Obama's seduction of women. Using lies, he seduced women into believing the government will take care of them, beautifully.  In 2012, Obama put his seduction online with the one website of his that actually works, his campaign website:

 

(CNN) Last week, President Obama's campaign launched a fictional storybook ad called, 'The Life of Julia.' The slide show narrative follows Julia, a cartoon character, from age 3 to age 67 and explains how Obama's policies, from Head Start to Obamacare to mandated contraception coverage to Medicare reform, would provide Julia with a better life than Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan could.

Julia is not your typical all-American girl, but an obviously independent, yuppie liberal woman. She goes to public school, graduates college, and becomes a Web designer. She is able to pursue her career because, at age 27, "her health insurance is required to cover birth control and preventive care, letting Julia focus on her work rather than worry about her health."

At age 31 she 'decides to have a child,' with no mention of a father or husband. Her son Zachary heads off to a Race to the Top funded public school, while Julia goes on to start her own Web business. She retires at age 67 with Social Security and Medicare supporting her financially and spends her later years volunteering in a community garden.

Julia's happily-ever-after tale is remarkably void of reality. Nowhere in her fictional life is it mentioned that Head Start has done little, if anything, to improve elementary education, that she will likely graduate with $25,000 in student loan debt, that she has a 50% chance of being unemployed or underemployed after college, that Medicare and Social Security are headed toward insolvency, and that her share of the national debt is $50,000 and growing.

"For Republicans, Julia's story might seem like a joke too good to be true, but they should take it very seriously. Because buried within 'The Life of Julia' is the ideological vision of modern liberalism -- to create a state that takes care of its people from cradle to grave. The story of Julia is a microcosm of Obama's vision for America and emblematic of his view of the government's role in an individual's life." -William Bennett

But now Obama's lies to women have threatened his plan to have the government take care of women from cradle to grave.  Threatened. But will it disrupt the plan?

Anyone that grew up in the 1970s during the classic Chiffon margarine campaign learned you got disruption when you fooled Mother Nature. Well, at first blush, it looks as if women's nature may not be so different from Mother Nature's nature. From the Pew Poll yesterday:

"President Barack Obama's approval rating is at its lowest level since he entered the White House in 2009, with a majority saying for the first time in a Quinnipiac University poll that the president is not honest and trustworthy."

"Among women voters, one of Obama's biggest support groups, only 40 percent said they approved of his performance in the White House, versus 51 percent who said they did not."

"Any Democrat with an 11-point approval deficit among women is in trouble. And any elected official with an 8-point trust deficit is in serious trouble."



Unfortunately because we are dealing with women and not Mother Nature, Obama isn't in real trouble as he's not up for re-election. Hence the true cad has been revealed. He used women for as long as he needed them dumping them as quickly as a 200 lb sack of sand when he was done. Future Democrats running for election may be in trouble -the-old-misdirected-anger wheeze. This poltical reality might explain why Bill Clinton, the president who lied about having "sex with that woman" wagged his finger (figuratively-speaking) yesterday in Obama's general direction saying 'honor your commitment'.

But the reality is both men, if they understand one thing, they understand women. Especially the women they've stepped in it with. Like they've done for decades with own their wives, they'll apply the presents to bring the women back into line. The only difference being the presents : Mrs. Clinton gets political power and Mrs. Obama gets shopping trips and vacations. Women will merely get more of what they've got; more bluster about the Republican's supposed war on women, free birth control and abortion 24/7. For women, that may be enough.

Would it have been enough for Mother Nature?

Virginia *Is* For Lovers.

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 The guy the girls elected Guv.

"Virginia is for Lovers." is one of the most iconic ad campaigns of the past 50 years. With last week's election of Terry McAuliffe (D) to the governor's seat, "Virginia is for Lovers" has become more than a tagline : It has become reality. Terry McAuliffe, the innovative Democrat bag man who came up with the idea of selling 'nights' in the Linclon bedroom for $$$$$ during the Clinton presidency ran a campaign promising the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia all the sex they wanted without consequences. Planned Parenthood made the Virginia's governor's race their number one priority, spending over 1 million dollars to smear Ken Cucinelli and elect McAuliffe. McAuliffe was not content to rely on Planned Parenthood to carry his race and spent over 5 million of his own on abortion ads, portraying Cucinelli as an 'extremist'.

The truth is, Terry McAuliffe, as his 'Sex the Lincoln Bedroom' scheme proved is the real extremist. From Katrina Trinko (NR) September 19, 2013:

In a series of recent ads, the campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe gleefully paints Cuccinelli as an extremist who secretly thinks women should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. The common theme in the ads is that Cuccinelli wants to “interfere” with women’s choices...[...] “It’s Ken Cuccinelli we should worry about,” intones a male (!) narrator ominously, adding that he is “pursuing an extreme agenda, interfering in our personal lives, and waging war on abortion even in cases of rape and incest.”

In another spot, Holly Purvitz, a calm, gray-haired OB-GYN of 30 years, fixes her hazel eyes worriedly on the camera and says, “I’m particularly offended by Ken Cuccinnelli. Cucinnelli wants to make all abortion illegal, even in cases of rape and incest. Even to protect a woman’s health,” Purvitz says. “I want a governor who’s focused on schools and creating jobs. . . . Who’s Ken Cucinnelli to interfere in the lives of women across Virginia?”

But who’s the real extremist on abortion? McAuliffe has been happy enough to attack Cuccinelli’s position, but he’s been evasive about his own views. In March, Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser in a prepared statement accused McAuliffe of “support[ing] a platform of abortion on-demand at any time, for any reason, paid for by Virginia taxpayers. That means he supports a platform of sex-selective abortion, late-term abortion, partial-birth abortion, and abortions on teenage girls without parental consent — all paid for by Virginia tax payers.” The Washington Post reported that, when it reached out to McAuliffe’s campaign for comment, “McAuliffe spokesman Josh Schwerin declined to say whether Dannenfelser had accurately represented McAuliffe’s position on abortion.”

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Furthermore, McAuliffe opposed additional regulations of Virginia abortion clinics while Cuccinelli supported them. “Cuccinelli bullied the Board of Health to pass medically unnecessary regulations intended to close women’s health clinics, which provide numerous services,” McAuliffe’s website scolded... [...]

And those harsh regulations? Well, according to the Virginia Catholic Conference, here’s what they entail:

The Commonwealth’s strong permanent regulations will now prevent abortion facilities from subjecting women to unsanitary conditions, including physicians performing abortions with unwashed hands or blood splattered on examination tables and medical trays. No longer will inadequate building standards prevent emergency medical technicians from retrieving a woman in need of emergency care from inside the facilities to transport her to a hospital emergency room.

Strange, because these all sound like initiatives that someone who supports women’s health and safety should back.

Another McAuliffe TV ad depicts Cuccinelli as the jerk who wants to make sure women stay in unhappy marriages. “If Cuccinelli had it his way, a mom trying to get out of a bad marriage over her husband’s objections could only get divorced if she could prove adultery or physical abuse or her spouse had abandoned her or was sentenced to jail.” Okay, but here’s the key bit McAuliffe leaves out: Men would face the same rules in trying to end their marriages, if that law [against no-fault divorce for parents of minors] had passed. (PolitiFact, an outlet not known for being sympathetic to social conservatives, agreed the legislation would have affected both men and women.) The legislation, recognizing that divorce often had bitter consequences for kids, was an attempt to make sure that neither spouse in a marriage with minor children could opt out of the marriage on a whim.

The McAuliffe campaign is also talking about contraception, attacking Cuccinnelli’s past support for “personhood” legislation. Some argue that those bills would have made some (not all) forms of contraception illegal. Cuccinelli took on the issue directly in August, saying, “I’ve never supported legislation that invades people’s choices about contraception.” Cuccinelli spokeswoman Anna Nix then elaborated to PolitiFact that “Ken Cuccinelli is not interested in legislating contraception.” So, while we still can’t get McAuliffe to go on record whether he’s okay with the abortion of babies who could survive as preemies after labor was induced, we do have Cuccinelli on record saying he’s not going to impose new laws affecting contraception.

The McAuliffe campaign, like most on the left, appears unable to see the distinction between supporting religious liberty and supporting bans on contraception. Cuccinelli, the McAuliffe campaign ominously warns on the website, has “even advocated civil disobedience to stop expanded birth control access.” This is a reference to Cuccinelli’s belief that the Obama administration is wrong to require employers with religious objections to contraception to offer contraceptive coverage to their employees. McAuliffe might as well say Cuccinelli wants to stop expanded access to Bibles because he’s not recommending that secular private schools dole out Bibles.

It’s an old Democrat and mainstream-media trick to depict a Republican as hating women because he supports socially conservative values...

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The old Democrat trick worked as exit polls demonstrated. Ken Cuccinelli, who was promising to not expand Obamacare, promote the coal industry and school choice won the married vote, 50 to 43%. McAuliffe swept the unmarried vote, 62 to 29% (67 to 25%women).




The irony is that one of the first ads of the "Virginia is For Lovers" campaign promoted the state as a place to honeymoon. In 2009 then-Governor of Virginia, Linwood Holton (R), spoke of his concerns of the campaign's imaging:

"That is a slogan that is subject to more than one interpretation and I was concerned about whether people would be offended by it. My initial reaction was not to do much of anything about it. When he returned to the Executive Mansion one day to find his children singing along with the ditty then associated with "Virginia is for Lovers," he figured: If it was OK for them, it would be OK for adults.


If it's Ok for kids, it's Ok for adults.

With Ken Cuccinelli as governor, Virginia would've gotten an ok-for-kids governor. One that the McAuliffe campaign pretended Terrry would be, "focused on schools and creating jobs." Instead Virginia has a governor who's not ok-for-kids, beginning with the unborn ones. As McAuliffe focuses on implementing the tried-and-true Democrat plan of failed social policies and reckless spending, Virginia will only get worse for kids. Like it has in other places where the Democrat plan has worked. Places like Detroit.

America will soon see in Virginia the merging of two ad campaigns : Virginia is for Lovers, imported from Detroit.

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One-Size-Fits-All Health Insurance From The Guy With The Composite Girlfriend.

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Like many characters in the memoir, he introduced her to advance a theme, another thread of thought in his musings about race. To that end, he distorted her attitudes and some of their experiences, emphasizing his sense that they came from different worlds. Decades later, during an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a “compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve when he lived in Chicago.

- Vanity Fair, Young Barack Obama In Love
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"Starting next year, all plans sold in this country will be required to provide 10 essential benefits, including some, like mental health and substance abuse treatment and maternity and newborn care"

-- NYTimes, Insurance Policies Not Worth Keeping

Obamacare forces them to drop many of their plans that don't meet the law's 10 minimum standards, including maternity care, emergency visits, mental health treatment and even pediatric dental care. That means consumers have to sign on to new plans even if they don't want or need the more generous coverage.

-- CBS More Than 2 Million People Getting Booted From Existing Health Insurance

"In West Virginia and New Hampshire, for example, residents shopping on the exchanges can only purchase plans from a single company."

--CNN, For Many The Promises of Obamacare Do Not Ring True

"I asked the representative to send me the information about essential benefits. She replied that I could just find it on the web site. When I told her I was unable to find abortion listed as a benefit on the site, she proceeded to read to me the list of essential benefits from the site. Abortion was not listed, but “preventative services” is listed. I asked her whether abortion was covered under “preventative services” as I had been told previously. She replied that it was and that abortion coverage is mandatory for the D.C. market. She also told me that for more detailed information on essential benefits I could click on the link to healthcare.gov below the list of benefits."

-- TownHall, D.C Obamacare Exchange Plans All Pay For Abortion

 

"As a 60-something, relatively healthy person [Larry Kudlow], I don’t want lactation and maternity services, abortion services, speech therapy, mammograms, fertility treatments or Viagra. I don’t want it. So why should I have to tear up my existing health-care plan, and then buy a plan with far more expensive premiums and deductibles, and with services I don’t need or want?"

-- Commentary, Ripping Off The Self-Insured

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Americans of all sizes are now like Obama's old girlfriends, compressed.

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Rodeo Clown Droned While We Slept.

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So we wake to the morning's news, the Missouri State Fair rodeo clown was droned while we slept:

"Missouri State Fair officials have now banned a clown who wore a President Obama mask during a performance that mocked the president.

"Fair officials also say they are with the Missouri Rodeo Cowboys Association, which ran the event, and that the association's personnel and performers must undergo sensitivity training if they are to work with the fair again."

-- NPR

The rodeo clown has been banned for life and his fellow rodeo clowns got sensitivity training. We've reached the point where clowns have to take sensitivity training if they ever want to hide in a barrel from a wild bull again.

Meanwhile, did you hear the latest on America's previous dronee, Paula Deen:

"A federal judge in Georgia has thrown out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen ended up causing the celebrity cook to lose a big slice of her culinary empire.

"Lisa Jackson sued Deen and her brother, Bubba Hiers, last year, saying she was subjected to sexual harassment and racist attitudes during the five years she worked at their restaurant, Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House. But U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. ruled Monday that Jackson, who is white, has no standing to sue them for race discrimination."

Let's repeat that last bit - "Jackson, who is white, has no standing to sue them for racial discrimination."

The judge continued:

"that though others may have allegedly faced discrimination, Jackson can't sue since she was not one of the victims."

A white woman was suing Paula Deen for racial discrimination. A white woman. What's really eye-opening is that it took a judge to point out that she, as a white woman, had no standing and was, therefore, not a victim of alleged racial discrimination.

The woman's lawyer didn't point this out. Neither did the media.  Meanwhile Paula was droned -losing half of her empire.

Did you hear one of America's other empires got racially profiled? Yup. Empress Oprah who made a cool 77 million last year alone got allegedly dissed in Switzerland by a shop girl. From an Entertainment Tonight interview -note the interviewer knew about the 'incident' before lobbing the softball:

Nancy O'Dell ( Entertainment Tonight) "Just a couple of weeks ago, you faced a shopping incident while you were in Switzerland attending Tina Turner's wedding."

OPRAH: I didn't have my eyelashes on, but I was in full Oprah Winfrey gear, and I go into a store -- which shall remain unnamed -- and I say to the woman, "Uh, excuse me, may I see that bag right above your head?" and she says to me, (mocking her accent) "No. It's too expensive." Uh, one more time I tried. I said, "But I really do just really want to see that one," and she said, "Oh, I don't... I don't want to hurt your feelings," and I said, "Okay. Thank you so much. You're probably right. I can't afford it," and I walked out of the store. Now why did she do that?

Oprah continued:

"There's two different ways to handle it," said Winfrey who was in town for Tina Turner's wedding. "I could've had the whole blow-up thing and thrown down the black card, but why do that?"

So Oprah didn't throw 'the black card' down in Switzerland, she merely waited and threw it down a few weeks later on Entertainment Tonight. Thankfully Switzerland is still neutral so its government wasn't able to drone the store clerk. The droning was left to The Tourist Board viaTwitter :

“This person acted terribly wrong.”

The Tourist Board also issued a formal apology:

“We are very sorry for what happened to her because we think all of our guests and clients should be treated respectfully, in a professional manner.”

It's just the citizens of Switzerland who aren't treated with respect. It's drone first, ask questions later. Thankfully the shop clerk was a woman so she wasn't immediately flattened like men are. She spoke to the press saying Oprah is lying :

Now the saleslady has hit back, stating: 'I wasn't sure what I should present to her when she came in on the afternoon of Saturday July 20 so I showed her some bags from the Jennifer Aniston collection.

"'I explained to her the bags came in different sizes and materials, like I always do. She looked at a frame behind me. Far above there was the 35,000 Swiss franc crocodile leather bag. I simply told her that it was like the one I held in my hand, only much more expensive, and that I could show her similar bags. It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag. She looked around the store again but didn't say anything else. Then she went with her companion to the lower floor. My colleague saw them to the door. They were not even in the store for five minutes.'

"She emphatically denied ever saying to Winfrey: 'You don't want to see this bag. It is too expensive. You cannot afford it.'

"The saleslady went on: 'This is not true. This is absurd. I would never say something like that to a customer. Really never. Good manners and politeness are the Alpha and the Omega in this business.

''I don't know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl.

"'I didn't hurt anyone. I don't know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV.

"'If it had all taken place as she claimed, why has she not complained the next day at the wedding of Tina Turner with Trudie Goetz, my boss? She was there also at the Turner wedding as a guest. I don't understand it.'

Ah, so the dreaded truth has come out - Oprah and the shop owner were at the same wedding the very next day. That was a perfectly appropriate opportunity time for business woman Oprah to professionally address her 'incident'. But Oprah didn't. She waited for the cameras to be rolling.

The store clerk's comments "I don't know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl." forced Oprah's hand.  At the LA premier of 'The Butler' Oprah attempted to explain her hurt feelings. (By the way in the old days of studios and studio heads, this 'incident' would've been easily seen by the public as a publicity stunt for a movie.) Note Oprah's not addressing the store clerk's claim she could've spoken with the owner of the store at Tina's wedding, instead she doubling down on the store clerk and said Switzerland -as in the entire country doesn't need to apologize to her :

Oprah Winfrey says she's "sorry" that a media frenzy emerged after saying she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland.

"I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I'm really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland. I was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don't expect that you would be able to be there. It's not an indictment against the country or even that store," she continued. "It was just one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag. So no apologies necessary from the country of Switzerland. If somebody makes a mistake in the United States do we apologize in front of the whole country? No!"

Instead we drone them with no apologies.

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal sums Oprah up perfectly:

We quite like this story as a parable of race relations in 21st-century America. Whatever actually happened at Trois Pommes, it was not a systemic indignity like the Montgomery, Ala., rule that required black bus riders to give up seats when white passengers boarded (to say nothing of the entire Jim Crow system of which that rule was a part).

What Winfrey construes as a racial episode is actually a story about class–a wealthy, privileged celebrity aggrieved by a lowly saleswoman’s lack of deference. And it’s not her first brush with this sort of impertinence: “The incident comes eight years after Winfrey was turned away from a Hermes store in Paris a few minutes after closing,” the News notes. Apparently fermé is un sifflet pour chien.

It’s reminiscent of the endlessly repeated claim that criticism of Barack Obama proves racism is alive and well in America. Somehow Obama’s defenders are unable to see past the color of his skin and notice that he is president of the United States. As for Winfrey, she went all the way to Europe to discover that racism is alive in America.

-- This Is Not Rosa Parks: Oprah Winfrey’s Swiss adventure.



So where are we? We're one clown down, Oprah buys bags made of real crocodile skin (that was the newsworthy part of her story) and we're still awaiting Jennifer Aniston's statement on learning her phony croc bags aren't good enough for Oprah. Oh puh-leaze, pleaze, pleaze Jennifer - do knock that one out of the park. Have PETA stand with you.

Meanwhile, for the serious folks, African American children in America still aren't being taught to read. This being done to them by our government :

"Two recent events -- one on the east coast and one on the west coast -- raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we say that we want better education for minority children.

"One of these events was an announcement by Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., that it plans on August 19th to begin "an entire week of activities to celebrate the grand opening of our new $160 million state-of-the-art school building."

"The painful irony in all this is that the original Dunbar High School building, which opened in 1916, housed a school with a record of high academic achievements for generations of black students, despite the inadequacies of the building and the inadequacies of the financial support that the school received.

"By contrast, today's Dunbar High School is just another ghetto school with abysmal standards, despite Washington's record of having some of the country's highest levels of money spent per pupil -- and some of the lowest test score results.

"Housing an educational disaster in an expensive new building is all too typical of what political incentives produce.

"We pay a lot of lip service to educational excellence. But too many institutions and individuals that have produced good educational results for minority students have not only failed to get support, but have even been undermined...

-- Thomas Sowell

Let us end with a hymn from Hillary in Selma, 2007:

 


"People now talk about their Obama vote in the same disbelieving tone used when they tell you they took an Ambien and woke up naked outside."

-- Dennis Miller

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