Obama Bows To China, Won’t Meet With Dalai Lama

Under pressure from the Chinese, who now own America and were honored in America with their flag being raised at the White House and the Empire State Building bathed in red and yellow lights, President Obama will not be meeting with the Dalai Lama who is the spiritual leader of Buddhism and Tibet.  Since 1991, the Dalai Lama has met with every sitting president.  President George W. Bush honored the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal.  The Dalai Lama has also received the Nobel Peace Prize.  But Obama would rather please the Chinese than give this man the respect he deserves.

The Indian Express puts it this way:

In an attempt to gain favour with China, for the first time since 1991 the US President will not meet Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama when he visits Washington this week.  President Barack Obama who is scheduled to undertake his first visit to China next month has apparently decided not to meet the Dalai Lama son as not to annoy Beijing.

“The US pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month,” Washington Post reported.

The US decision to postpone the meeting appears to be part of a strategy to improve ties with China that also includes soft-pedaling criticism of China’s human rights and financial policies as well as backing efforts to elevate China’s position in international institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund, the report said.

So I wonder how the peace loving liberals who practice Buddhism feel about this?  Is Obama still your man since he promises to bring the whole world together?  One day, these people on the left will realize what an empty suit of broken promises Obama really is and jump off of his bandwagon.  Obama supports China rather than human rights.  And really, he has left himself little choice.  The government, including past presidents have left him little choice.  We are beholden to China, who is our enemy as long as they continue to be Red China, because they own America.  But then again, Obama would love to follow the path of China’s leadership.

Wow, Obama Gets Everyone To Agree To No Nukes, Non-Binding

The leftists are tripping over each other in their rush to praise President Obama in his ability to get the United Nation’s Security Council to agree unanimously to clamp down on nuclear weapons and start dismantling stockpiles.  James Carroll of the Daily Beast wrote, ”Obama becomes the first U.S. president to chair an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council, with its nations represented by heads of state, not diplomats…It tips Obama’s hand that, because of him, the word disarmament is back. It is not too much to say that the United Nations was founded to deal with the atomic bomb.”

The New Republic’s Michael Crowley wrote, “Clearly, that’s not how Rahm Emanuel, who’s looking a little antsy, would like to schedule the president’s time. But that’s exactly why today’s session is so important, if only in a symbolic sense…The hard work of nonproliferation involves a lot of dull meetings and treaties.”

Matthew Bunn of Harvard commented, “Obama has taken a terrific step…The resolution puts the Security Council squarely behind an agenda that includes tougher responses to violations of nonproliferation treaties, stronger inspections, a ban on nuclear testing, an end to all production of nuclear materials for nuclear weapons worldwide, and steps toward the ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons.”

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder claims the resolution tangibly advances the cause of global nonproliferation and he also praised the President for bringing Russia further than they had ever come in the area of sanctions against Iran. 

The problem with all this praise is that it is as empty as the resolution, which is non-binding and doesn’t sanction anyone.  The only teeth in the measure comes when a state leaves the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).  They are required to return any technology that has been supplied to them by other states.  Wait a minute!  Who the hell is giving these states nuclear supplies?  Oh I am sure it is just for energy, right?  The resolution also called out Israel to push them into signing the treaty.

Can liberals and the President be this naive?  None of these countries are going to dismantle.  Of course they signed up because America has volunteered to go first when it comes to disarmament.  The United Nations has proven to be another waste of time and money again.  This really turned out to just be another photo op for the President and another empty attempt to cushion his achievement list.  The real work of this resolution has been pushed off until April where nothing will be achieved again.  Every G20 follows this same path.  Talk alot, take pictures and then push everything forward to the next meeting.

Obama Humiliates America With Pandering, Narcisstic, Apologist Speech at U.N.

Just when we thought that the President could not become any more self-absorbed and pandering, we find he can after his address to the United Nations today.  This literally could go down as the weakest address ever given by an American president at this forum.  I stopped counting the “I”s, “me”s and “my”s after the first fifteen minutes.  He went on and on pointing out to his new friends that he is doing everything they want without asking them for anything in return, ranging from closing Gitmo, stopping torture, ending the war in Iraq and destroying our nuclear arsenal.  The President obviously was attempting to buy goodwill among the members, including the dictators.  He is so very naive.  These people will annihilate us the first chance they get.  Obviously,  based on the recent terror plot arrests, this country is still a target even under the leadership of Obama.

Obama continued to embellish the global warming lie blaming America for much of the trouble we are having with that.  Bolivia’s president pointed the finger squarely at America as well as he blamed capitalism for the world’s woes and coming imminent destruction.  Obama said, “More and more nations with nuclear weapons.  Melting ice caps and ravaged populations. Persistent poverty and pandemic disease. I say this not to sow fear, but to state a fact: the magnitude of our challenges has yet to be met by the measure of our action.”  Where is this happening?  For the true items, they are occurring in countries lorded over by despots.  And we cannot change them.  Then the President quoted Roosevelt – his socialist hero.

The President went on to describe his idea for a new global order held up by four pillars: disarmament, promotion of peace and security, the preservation of the planet and a global economy that benefits everyone (read: socialism).  The President obviously thinks that apologizing for America will get the world to follow our lead in these areas.  He is so naive.  Russia is ramping up their nuclear stockpile.  Iran is starting to build a nuclear stockpile.  North Korea has been test firing their nuclear arsenal.  China is building their military.  Our enemies are ramping up their efforts and he appears to be clueless to those facts.  He also promised to reach some kind of Middle East peace agreement even as he proclaimed that America does not recognize the legitimacy of Israeli settlements.

The most asinine part of the speech addressed climate change.  Even as scientists have debunked the myths surrounding global warming and world temperatures reveal that the planet is cooling, the President claimed, “The danger posed by climate change cannot be denied, and our responsibility to meet it must not be deferred. If we continue down our current course, every member of this Assembly will see irreversible changes within their borders. Our efforts to end conflicts will be eclipsed by wars over refugees and resources. Development will be devastated by drought and famine. Land that human beings have lived on for millennia will disappear. Future generations will look back and wonder why we refused to act – why we failed to pass on intact the environment that was our inheritance.  That is why the days when America dragged its feet on this issue are over. We will move forward with investments to transform our energy economy, while providing incentives to make clean energy the profitable kind of energy. We will press ahead with deep cuts in emissions to reach the goals that we set for 2020, and eventually 2050. We will continue to promote renewable energy and efficiency – and share new technologies – with countries around the world. And we will seize every opportunity for progress to address this threat in a cooperative effort with the whole world.”  No, Mr. President, future generations will look back and wonder what was so worth our giving up America’s freedom.

Here’s what I would say if I was president:  “Screw you all!  America is autonomous and we will not bear any nation that attacks us.  We will share alliances with any country that agrees to be in alliance with us and proves that by helping us fight terrorism and despots around the world.  We no longer will be a member of the United Nations and you will need to find a new place to meet because our free market will be using this building for business from now on.  You will receive no more money from us, but we will continue to be charitable to the underpriviledged by supplying food and medical supplies ourselves via various charities in America.  Hugo, Ineedajob, Kadaffy, and the rest of you dictators, kiss my a$$!”

But we are talking about a man raised by Marxists, taught by Marxists, befriended by Marxists, mentored by Marxists and married to a Marxist, so he actually envies the Castro brothers and Hugo Chavez.  And as long as we live under a leader like that, America will be in very real danger.

Didn’t Obama Promise Not One Dime Of Taxes On Middle Class

Broken promise number one thousand eight hundred and fifty is soon to be coming to a checkbook near you.  Remember those fond days of promised “hope and change?”  Apparently, Obama was not talking about the kind of change many people were expecting.  For decades, the middle class has been under assault from our government and the Internal Revenue Service when it comes to taxes.  Despite the rich shouldering a major portion of the taxes in this country, it is the middle class who end up paying far more than their far share.  The middle class is the cog in the American machine.  Obama promised us that he would not raise taxes on us, “Not one dime.”

The truth is that anyone who smokes in the middle class has already had their taxes raised.  If Crap & Tax passes, the middle class will have another tax levied against them.  And today, Obama administration officials were making the rounds on Sunday morning political television and seemed to be hinting or outright confirming that taxes on the middle class will rise. “We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we … can convince the American people that we’re going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established,” Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said on ABC’s “This Week.”   Tax Cheat Giethner answered a follow up question as to it would be right to say that it is a matter of when and not if taxes will be raised with, “It is absolutely right.”

National Economic President Larry Summers said on a different show today, “There is a lot that can happen over time. … But what the president has been completely clear on is that he is not going to pursue any of his priorities — not health care, not energy, nothing — in ways that are primarily burdening middle-class families. That is something that is not going to happen.”  Well, I sure am glad that we are not going to be primarily burdened.  They think we are idiots. 

Let me ask the real idiots this question, “Which of Obama’s campaign promises has he kept?”

China Summit In America Worthless

The government needs to stop wasting time and money with Obama’s foreign policy and diplomacy.  Now he is playing nice with the Red Chinese who have been in America for the past two days to discuss our relationship and most importantly, economics.  As usual, nothing has been accomplished other than Obama coming out and announcing that the United States sought a new era of “cooperation, not confrontation” with China.  Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was all previous presidents have done with China is be confrontational.  Particularly that Clinton guy.

The truth here is that China has us in a debt headlock.  They own over one trillion dollars in our debt and could destroy us in one fell swoop even as Timmy Tax Cheat Geithner tries to reassure them that inflation is not on the horizon.  Geithner must have forgotten that he was laughed out of China last month when he claimed that our economy was improving and that we would lower our deficits.

The President wanted to convince China to start importing our goods since we import so much of their goods.  Why should they when they can just buy their own more cheaply?  Maybe we should try manufacturing our own goods – such a novel idea.  And Hillary and Obama are still pleading with China to get on the new green energy bandwagon.  They obviously have not noticed that China’s economy is thriving as they build one new coal fired plant every week.  China is not about to stop their manufacturing sector, especially since they know that this green energy movement is a farce. 

The President also wanted cooperation from China in regards to North Korea.  Nothing came of that either.  So we see our leadership once again bumbling along and getting nothing done, but they sure look impressively busy.

Obama’s Russian/G8 Trip A Big Zero

The President experienced a very poor reception in Russia from both the leadership and the people of Russia. His speech at a Russian University received a tepid response. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin managed Obama as the foreign policy novice that he is and agreed to none of the provisions that Obama hoped to get agreement on, save for allowing some military and supplies to pass through Russia to Afghanistan. The missile defense shield is still an issue that Russia will not allow and, in fact, has threatened Poland and the United States with retaliation if we proceed with construction. This is enemy talk, not the speech of an alli. Russia still maintains their position on Georgia and would like to take back that “territory” and not allow it to stand as its own country. The President responded by not visiting Georgia on this trip.  An obvious act of subservience to Putin.

Then it was off to the G8 Summit which revealed our President to be even more inept than we already knew him to be and proved to be a complete waste of time for the world and our country.  How much money did this waste?  There was no agreement on climate change which was the President’s main objective.  He proceeded this trip by cramming down the throats of the American people the Crap and Tax Bill, which passed the House before he left for Russia.  He must know this will hurt America if he has any sense at all and the fact that he is forcing us to agree to these limits while the rest of the world resists is illustrative of exactly what this bill will do to an economy.  Emerging and developing economies like India, New Zealand and even China, want nothing to do with this global warming legislation or agreements.  None of our allies supported Obama in his climate change efforts.  This means that even if this global warming crap was real and not a farce, no matter what America does, there will be no change in greenhouse gases.

So there was no reset of the relationship with Russia as President Medvedev ended the G8 threatening us and acting just as authoritarian.  There was no agreement on Iran that would have any substantive effect.  No agreement on climate change except a 2050 plan.  So despite the fact that our President would like to meddle around the world, oh wait, he does not want to meddle, the world will not let him.  He is proving to be an impotent leader and an international joke.  The adulation is fading throughout the world.  And polls are indicating that his approval in America is dwindling fast.  And this trip equaled out to a big zero!

Obama Wants To Hit ‘Reset’ With Russia

I could have sworn that a couple of months ago Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State who seems to be more of a figure head with all of Obama’s diplomacy czars, had presented the President of Russia with a gift that was suppose to be a “reset” button on relations.  The error of having chosen the wrong Russian word meaning “overcharged” instead of “reset” to engrave on the gift is still the source of a parody I made for the radio show.  So the question becomes upon hearing that the President made a speech in Moscow about resetting relations – was this Hillary’s job or his and is he not just repeating a process that supposedly was already started?

The President gave a graduation speech for the New Economic School in Moscow and said, “Let me be clear: America wants a strong, peaceful, and prosperous Russia.  That is why I have called for a ‘reset’ in relations between the United States and Russia.  This must be more than a fresh start between the Kremlin and the White House, though that is important, it must be a sustained effort among the American and Russian people to identify mutual interests and expand dialogue and cooperation that can pave the way to progress.”  Can somebody tell me what in the hell is he talking about?  We have to expand our dialogue with the Russian people?!  Since when did we have issues with the people of that country or did he miss the part about the Cold War being over?  Should I pick up my phone and dial the nearest Russian and discuss our mutual interests?  This empty suit is a laughing stock in the international community and the Kool-Aid drinkers cannot see it.  If this was George Bush making these diplomatic blunders all over the world, the media would be crucifying him.

The only good thing to come from the meeting is Russia agreeing to allow the U.S. to move troops and supplies through Russia.  I wonder what we offered for that agreement?  Better check the money supply in Washington because I have a feeling it is a few billion short somewhere.  The President had this nugget of wisdom to add as well when he spoke: “In 2009, a great power does not show strength by dominating or demonizing other countries. The days when empires could treat sovereign states as pieces on a chess board are over.”  So exactly what is he saying about that evil empire America again?  How much more obvious can he make it that he reads Saul Alinksky’s “Rules for Radicals” every night and calls Bill Ayers for diplomacy advise?

The two issues that have kept tensions between Russia and America are still issues today and so the thought that Obama can make a fresh start with Russia is hilarious.  Russia still will not allow us to build any kind of missile defense shield in Poland and Georgia is still a country that Russia would like to take back again.  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin does indeed have one foot still in the Cold War, as the President claimed a few weeks ago, and will not change.  Although the President’s assessment changed.  In an interview with Major Garrett of Fox News, the President would not answer the question of whether he still believed that assertion which indicates to me that Putin let him know he better keep his mouth shut on that opinion.

Somebody please stop this man and his ideas of diplomacy before America becomes just an annoying little bug that any country could squish.

Live Blogging ABC Healthcare Infomercial

I’m live blogging the infomercial so refresh for updates.

Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer are hosting and thank President for allowing them to use White House – yeah right.  The White House wanted them there.

Charlie asks how many think system needs to be changed and every hand goes up.  He asks how many think it should stay the same and no one raises their hand.  President Obama jokes that he would like to stop there.

Obama is asked if he would do whatever it takes to get the very best coverage for his family and he yammers about his grandmother’s broken hip and that he would like to get the best care, but…the staus quo is untenable.  Healthcare is bankrupting families and government.  The President is asked who is going to design and enforce.  President wants something uniquely American.  Wants everyone to have adequate service while driving down costs.  President has confidence in doctors to do what is best for patients, but rules make it hard for them to do what is appropriate.  So doctor’s today don’t care about patients?

An email reminds the President that the Mayo Clinic is already accomplishing what needs to be done at a good price in the private sector, so why get the government involved?  The President says ten years from now, people won’t be happy with their healthcare anymore because it will be too expensive.  Does he have proof of that?  Nope – no proof given via graphs, etc.  We just have to believe what he says.  Charlie asks about the need to figure out the specifics before we pass a bill and the President starts stammering about MediCare being loved by seniors, but not being good.  What is lacking is political will according to the President.

The President says we need more primary healthcare professionals and so we need to change incentives about becoming a family physician.  He wants less specialists!  Tell that to my thyroid!  We need to incentivize good healthcare – because doctors do not want to give it now?!  Charlie asks about 46 million uninsured and we only have so many doctors, so how will we get everybody taken care of – Charlie asked a good question for a change.  The answer: Rationing, but President will not say.

Member of AMA asks how is President going to assure the public that the decisions for their treatment will be between them and their doctors.  So far the President’s main answer to everything is that this will take time and not happen overnight.  President says if we are happy with our doctor and plan, we can keep them.  But we know the truth.  The private sector cannot compete with a subsidized government plan.  He is talking about an exchange where people can compare plans and sign up for the plans that work for them.  Doctors will be reimbursed based on qualities of outcome rather than tests, etc. done.  What?!

A woman asks if there will be a cut off for medical care based on age and quality of life since her mother is age 105.  Obama claims that this is not a big government program he is talking about and he suggests we all do Living Wills.  He doesn’t want the government making those decisions, but…aren’t these decisions already being made that way.  Umm, no Mr. President, the government is not making those decisions.  He suggests that perhaps a pain killer would be given rather than surgery.  He has no idea what he is talking about.  This woman’s mother had a pacemaker put in at age 100.  The cost was $30,000, so she wonders if the government would have allowed it.  Then the President talks about his “experts” that will be looking into these types of things.

Charlie is talking cost and mentions the $2 trillion number.  A man asks who will pay for this and how and how much will government intrude in his life?  President wants to regulate insurers so they have to cover pre-existing conditions so more people will be covered.  President talks about how costs are already out of whack – so he is going to make it worse?!  The President says his adminstration says that whatever they do, they pay for without adding to deficit.  There will be re-allocated dollars already in healthcare system.  Uh huh…One third of payments will come from new revenue – uh that would be taxes!  The CBO will not credit Obama with the savings he is pointing out.  Wah Wahhh!  The CBO is non-partisan and honest.

The President is confident that the stars are aligned between drug companies and doctors and everyone else and we need to have courage and compromise to get this to go.  If we keep our eye on the prize, then the President is confident we will succeed this time.

And it ended as lamely as it began.  Nothing new was discussed, just the same old talking points which equate to lies when coming from Barack Obama.  And how many commercials breaks did this thing have?  Now we know why the All Barack Channel ran this thing – Cha Ching!

More Obama Cronyism Highlighted

President Barack Obama has spent the better part of his early presidency handing out government jobs and cabinet positions to supporters he gained along the campaign trail.  The most obvious payback being the rewriting of bankruptcy law to ensure that the UAW – a union that heavy supported Obama – was placed at the top of the rung to receive money in the auto industry bankruptcies.  Byron York, writing for the Washington Examiner, has revealed another act of cronyism that has not made it into the mainstream media.  That would be the story around the attempted firing of the inspector general for AmeriCorps.

AmeriCorps is an organization that was started under the Clinton administration.  AmeriCorps is a precursor to the mandatory volunteering that the Obama administration will soon be forcing most young people to participate in and is the model for the mountain of new corps that the President has implemented.  AmeriCorps helps to supply non-profit organizations with grants.  All federal programs have oversight from inspector generals (IGs).  The IG for AmeriCorps is Gerald Walpin.  He had been investigating the use of grants by St. HOPE Academy which is run by a former NBA star, Kevin Johnson.  Apparently, Walpin discovered that this group had misused $850,000 in grants and asked for those funds to be repaid.  The misuse stemmed from Johnson using the funds to pay volunteers to run personal errands, engage in political activities and even washing Johnson’s car.  The U.S. attorney did not file charges and St. HOPE agreed to pay back half of the money even though the organization is insolvent at this time.  The matter should have been settled and the IG did a great job with oversight.

But Walpin received a call on Wednesday from Norman Eisen, Special Council to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, who informed Walpin that he had one hour to resign or be fired and that his St. HOPE investigation had nothing to do with this and that it was just a coincidence that these two events took place together.   The Inspectors General Reform Act, which was co-sponsored by Obama as a Senator, requires the President to give Congress thirty days notice before dismissing an IG.  Thus, Walpin had no fear that he would be fired within a few hours unless the President wanted to break the law.  He fired off an email to Eisen basically telling him off and that he would have to be removed by the President because he had no intention of resigning.  By Friday, Byron York had confirmed that the White House intended to fire Walpin over the St HOPE investigation.

The truth behind this situation appears to be two-fold: 1)Walpin is a Republican appointed IG and has been a staunch defender against waste and Obama wants to replace him with one of his people (I bet no more waste or fraud is discovered) and 2)Kevin Johnson is a prominent supporter of Obama and so the IG has to go.

If this is not a definitive example of cronyism, I do not know what would be.

The Seventies Revisited

Apparently, President Barack Obama believes that Jimmy Carter’s leadership style is a model worthy of imitation.  The economy continues to spiral downward with rocketing unemployment numbers and huge deficits and the President is meeting foreign relation problems with Carter diplomacy, which equates to pandering and a loss of security.  The Obama presidency has mirrored several presidencies – Woodrow Wilson’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s to name a couple – but Jimmy Carter’s presidency is the one we will feel the most in the upcoming months.

During Carter’s presidency, interest rates skyrocketed.  Right now, the Federal Reserve has our interest rates parked at nearly zero, but that is about to change.  The rampant printing of currency with no backed value and our increasing debt load has lead countries away from buying our debt and we have been forced to monetize our debt.  The end result is increased interest rates to manage the debt.  And these interest rates will continue to rise as long as government waste continues.  Increased interest rates will affect all Americans as we have to pay more for homes, cars, insurance, etc.

Inflation will rise as well and will increase at such a rate that it will be referred to as hyper-inflation.  This also will affect everyone as groceries staples and big ticket items all rise in price.  The devaluing of the dollar will help lead to this inflation as well and it will not only “cost” more for products, but more dollars will be needed.  In Germany, before Hitler too power, people were literally using wheelbarrows to take their money to the store.  It was not that bad during Carter’s one term, but the price of milk and bread was outrageous.

Gas prices are already on the rise.  There is also no hope that America will begin drilling here and now for our own oil reserves which could lead to a shortage of oil.  We watched this happen last year and can expect the same result as we meander through this summer.  Increased gas prices and a shortage of fuel leads to long lines at gas stations.  Who can forget the pictures of lines at gas stations during the seventies.

Obama is using the kind of diplomacy that Carter implemented which lead to Americans being taken hostage (can anyone say North Korea?) and terrorist regimes growing and taking over more power, which ultimately lead to 9/11.  We cannot play nicey nice with our enemies and expect them to do what we want.  We only look weak and our enemies have always taken advantage of us when we appear weak.

This Obama presidency really is beginning to feel like a seventies flashback.  The music was great, but I can really do without money and security woes.