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In response to the outrage at the Leftist Congress that has been voiced by ordinary Americans in Town Hall events around the country, the Democrats have opted - typically - not to address the peoples' concerns, but rather to demonize those who get in their way.
The account below is yet another in a long line of attempts by the Left to shut down free speech. The American Left and Radical Muslim terrorist sympathizers agree with each other.
I know she ruffles all the feathers on the Left but she does it so exquisitely --love her! Her takedown of that true twerp Olbermann is so well executed. I had an experience with him: he's a bad guy. He doesn't deserve any space on my blog, but this is really about how good Ann is:
What most in the western world -- certainly not liberals -- do not understand is that Israel, the United States, France, Great Britain and now Iraq and Afghanistan are all part of the same, important idea: that all men are created equally and born to live freely.
Candidate Obama chose to be friends with William Ayres, the unrepentant terrorist. Yet, the Leftist media thought it was more important to "vet" Bristol Palin's boyfriend's family.
I've seen Obama rattled badly only once: in early to mid-September when the Sarah Palin phenomenon "hit" and Obama wasn't the central character anymore.
Obama showed us, with the early lines of his Inaugural address, that he is Jimmy Carter:
"Less measurable, but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights."
Her ability to drive the Left into apoplectic fits is just one reason to delight in Ann Coulter. Her ability stems from the willfully blind Left's belief that the 'truth' according the Right is "divisive." Enjoy Ann's latest little bit of truth:
Upon taking office, President Obama will push hard for the ridiculous (for Israel) "Saudi Peace Initiative," which asks for Israel to give up the land that it won in the 1967 war, in return for peace with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbors who have yet to make peace with Israel.
From the NY Times today: "Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the banking committee, said he would not support legislation to aid the auto companies and seemed prepared to let one or all of them collapse.
The most unnerving aspects about the Democrats' sweeping victory Nov. 4 are their intolerance for dissent and their willingness to censor and otherwise suppress their opponents. Consider:
People in America feel safe. If they didn't, a leftist newcomer with little experience - like Barack Obama - would never be considered for the presidency.
This from the eminent military historian, Victor Davis Hanson:
Iraq and the General War on Terror [Victor Davis Hanson]
How odd (or to be expected) that suddenly intelligence agencies, analysts, journalists, and terrorists themselves are attesting that al-Qaeda is in near ruins, that ideologically radical Islam is losing its appeal, and that terrorist incidents against Americans at home and abroad outside the war zones are at an all-time low--and yet few associate the radical change in fortune in Iraq as a contributory cause to our success.
Obama is a creature of the far left -- I actually think that he has strong Marxist leanings. Mainstream Democrats are convincing themselves that he stands for "non-divisiveness" -- a "new" kind of politics. In reality, he's the same-old, same-old. The "game" hasn't changed. The way in which he played the Pastor Wright affair was PURE politics.
Actress Sally Field won an Oscar in 1979 for playing a union organizer in “Norma
Rae.” Six years later, she won the same prized-award for her role in “Places
in the Heart,” her acceptance speech earning its own special place in
sound-bite history:
No matter that Obama can't get the white vote (no matter what he spends); no
matter that Reverend Wright is a loose cannon ready to appear at his own whim;
no matter that Wright has already told us that Obama was in the pews for 20
years listening and soaking up his America-hating rants (by saying that Barack
denies it by calling him a "politician").
The decades-long doom-and-gloom narrative of the left started with the assassination
of JFK in 1963, was reinforced by MLK's assassination in 1968, and was tattooed
into their collective consciousnesses with the assassination of RFK only a few
months later.
In 1974, an aging Muhammad Ali was facing the much stronger George Foreman in a bout that came to be known as "The Rumble in the Jungle." Entering the ring Foreman, while not particularly popular was, by all accounts, the big odds on favorite not only to defeat Ali but to knock him out early and humiliatingly.
When you really think about the crop of Democratic candidates for president,
it’s clear that their best hope to win in 2008, is not even on the playing
field.
The Democrats' personal hatred towards President Bush - in light of the objective successes of his presidency - make clear the sad fact that they would rather see America fail if that failure made the president look bad.
He’s young and handsome, with looks both pretty and different, and he
finds himself one of the front-runners for a position that is nothing less than
the very pinnacle of his profession.
It took less than a week for Nancy Pelosi - who "stuck up" for President
Bush when Hugo Chavez used the United Nations forum to call him a "devil"
and a "liar" in front of the world - to revert to her true self.
Iran is building a nuke to wipe out Israel, which its fanatical leader, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, insists has no right to exist. But liberals remain mute about his
ravings, preferring to savage President Bush. Shameful.
A prime example Democrats cite to depict President Bush as inept in keeping America
safe is that, after five years, "we haven't gotten Osama bin Laden."
While the current zeitgeist is that Hezbollah "won", tell that to
the Lebanese people who had to walk over rubble to get to their homes and businesses.
You would never know Israel was winning its war against Hezbollah if you relied
on media reports. Or heeded the world’s diplomats who, of course, have
their own agendas.
Frenchman Zinedine Zidane, the 34-year-old superstar of international soccer,
claims to have been goaded into the vicious head-butt of his opponent’s
sternum because of insults his Italian foe leveled at his mother.
