Great Op-Ed From The Local Paper...

Obama is the Teflon president
 Newburyport Daily News
 To the editor: 

Only Barack Hussein Obama could survive unscathed the events of the past week. Of course, it helps if you have the media hacks from CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NBC, CBS and ABC covering your tracks. For those whose idea of current events consists of all things Kardashian, here’s what you missed. In August, more people applied for food stamps than found jobs. 8.1 percent unemployment doesn’t begin to tell the story as 368,000 workers gave up looking for work and were not included in the grim stats. The labor force participation rate dropped to 63.5 percent, the lowest since 1981, which ironically was preceded by the disaster that was Jimmy Carter. Obama snubs Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, yet finds time for Letterman and “Entertainment Tonight.” Israel is our staunchest ally in the most volatile part of the world. In his four years in office, Obama has yet to visit Israel. Moody’s downgrades our credit worthiness for the second time in the last six months, which means it’s going to cost even more to borrow money to keep up our spending binge. The guy that promised to cut the deficit in half has added $6 trillion to it. The Federal Reserve embarks on the third round of “quantitative easing,” which means we’ll be printing more money that we don’t have, which will cost us more to borrow due to the Moody’s downgrade noted above. The effects of this policy will most certainly lead to inflation. Get ready for $5 gas. Have you noticed your grocery bill lately? “The Washington Post reported that Obama missed 62 percent of in his daily intelligence briefings over the past two years, a period encompassing the Arab Spring uprisings. This is stunning. Conversely, George Bush rarely missed his daily briefings.” In the aftermath of the storming of our embassy in Cairo, Obama’s State Department apologizes to the attackers for the actions of “misguided individuals” who might have hurt the feelings of Muslins, as if the violence were somehow justified. The State Department later retracts that statement. Within hours of the attack on our embassy in Libya that kills four Americans, the president jets off to Vegas to ring the register with more campaign contributions. Meanwhile, extremist Muslins expand their attacks to 21 countries and the White House continues with the narrative that it’s not due to U.S. policy but rather some obscure YouTube video that went viral in the Arab world. Haven’t radical Muslins have been trying to kill us for decades? Has everyone forgotten the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 which happened under, you guessed it, Jimmy Carter? Without his teleprompter, Obama tells Telemundo that Egypt is neither an ally nor an enemy despite a 1989 agreement to the contrary. His own State Department has to correct him the following day. Imagine the field day the media would be having if this fiasco occurred on George Bush’s watch. Yes, it’s good to be Barack Hussein Obama. You’re coated in Teflon that the media is happy to apply liberally on a daily basis.


 Mike Cronan Newburyport

I wanted to add this left wing comment that was posted as a rebuttle so you can see the mindset of the left:

Yup! More lunatic diatribe from the wacky right! Meanwhile, under socialist Obama, the Dow has doubled since he took office and corporate profits are at historical highs, GM is alive and bin Laden is dead. The Iraq war is over, and 33,000 American troops are returning home from Afghanistan right now, as Obama winds that war down. Interest rates are at all time lows, and with ZERO RepubliCON votes or jobs bills brought to congress, 4.6 million jobs have been created. Did anyone notice Forbes magazines article on this years 400 American billionaires, which, by the way is based on those who are worth a minimum of $1.1 billion...regular $1 billionaires don't make the list. How many of those billionaires hide their money offshore to avoid paying taxes that cause our deficit to be in the trillions? As for our deficit, defense spending doubled under George Bush and takes 56% of the budget. It's time to scale that back and ending the wars will help. And yes, one right wing Islam hating Israeli American DID release a hate filled movie on Islam that caused a furor in the middle east. That type of thing happens every few years, and as for our embassy being attacked, it happened five times when Bush was president. That movie and resulting furor caused gas prices to spike temporarily. Crude has dropped $6.00 this week and gas prices will start falling soon. America will never become energy independent without wind and solar. Germany produces 20 times more energy through wind and solar than their nuclear energy provides. We can do the same thing here, while creating tens of thousands of jobs. Battery powered cars will also reduce our dependence on oil. Our oil consumption is at it's lowest since 1997 and dropping. Our natural gas supply is at it's highest in history, too. Elect Romney and the deficit will increase another $5 trillion, because that's his plan, to cut more taxes for his wealthy friends, the middle class will disappear, America will become a plutocrasy, and 50% of our seniors will be thrown back into poverty, like they were before social security.