http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/01/helen-thomas-hits-white-house-for-lack-of-transparency/

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Here’s hoping the courageous Iranian people find a way to freedom and true representative democracy.

~~John Cronin~~

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Now we see the courageous Iranian people fighting the forces of totalitarianism in the streets. Young men and women, battling well armed later day Gestapo with chunks of concrete and moral authority.

Take a few minutes to view this riveting YouTube video of what may be a developing Iranian Revolution.

~~John Cronin~~

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http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26742/?ck=1

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HAHAAHAHA, I can not stop laughing. I meant compliments, really.

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the irony … is that [he] actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government,

in a White House interview today. This statement just completely flabbergasts me.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/health/16alco.html?_r=2&ref=health

So what are fingerprints for?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090612092729.htm

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14 June 2009

Mitt Romney, a once and maybe future presidential candidate, calls Iran’s presidential results “a fraud” and urged President Barack Obama to speak out against the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Obama, Romney said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” should ”indicate that this has been a terribly managed decision by the autocratic regime in Iran.”

The former Republican Massachusetts governor also used the Iranian results to broaden his indictment of Obama, saying “it’s very clear that the president’s policies of going around the world and apologizing for America are not working.”

Romney cited the belligerence of Iran, North Korea and Russia and the refusal of European countries to offer significant troop increases for Afghanistan.

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In addition, Mitt’s interview this weekend on ABC.

And, Mitt’s interview on the Mark Larson show this past Friday.

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~~John Cronin~~

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526228,00.html

NEVE DANIEL, West Bank — Former President Jimmy Carter, an outspoken critic of Israeli settlements, met Sunday with West Bank settlers in what he described as a chance to “listen” and make his views known.

Carter met with settler leader Shaul Goldstein and others at the pastoral settlement of Neve Daniel, south of Jerusalem. Carter said he was “here to listen” to the settlers, and that he hoped to “make sure they understand my own attitude toward Israel and the Jewish population in the world and toward the Jewish settlers.”

Later, Carter sat in Goldstein’s living room, positioned under five books of the Hebrew Bible on a bookshelf.

“This is our homeland, but we recognize there are other people living next to us,” Goldstein told him, referring to the Palestinians, who view the West Bank as part of a future state.

Jewish settlement in the West Bank is one of the key points of dispute among Israelis and Palestinians. Much of the international community views settlements as an obstacle to a peace deal.
Settlers, and many Israelis, see the West Bank as the Jewish people’s Biblical heartland and say Israel should not cede it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under pressure from President Barack Obama to halt settlement construction, but has so far refused to do so.

Carter, 85, brokered the historic peace deal between Israel and Egypt in 1979. In a controversial 2007 book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Carter argued that Israel has to choose between ceding the West Bank to the Palestinians in a peace deal or maintaining a system of ethnic inequality similar to that of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Views like that have made Carter unpopular among settlers and their supporters. A group of local settlers circulated an open letter titled, “Jimmy Carter go home,” saying the former president was an “anti-Semite” and “not welcome here.”

“Mr. Carter is an advocate for those seeking to destroy Israel, and the fact that he contributes to that agenda under the guise of a man of good will seeking peace only makes him more dangerous and his efforts more dishonest,” the letter said.

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From all of us here at comMITTed, we wish you the best on your 85th birthday President George Herbert Walker Bush! President Bush is scheduled to celebrate his birthday by doing a parachute jump near his home in Maine.

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We got our first picture of Pat at Quantico yesterday via the USMC website.  Pat is first from the left, with the two story red building in back of him.  Larger Image here.

~~John Cronin~~

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~~John Cronin~~

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There are, of course, some very good news organizations out there, who do give voice to conservatives, FOXNEWS, THE WALL ST. JOURNAL, NRO, IBD, TOWNHALL and others, but they can’t be everywhere and sometimes we find ourselves right in the middle of a story with our trusty mini DV camera at the ready. Those of us who contribute to political blogs have the latitude to cover stories that are not being followed by even the conservative outlets and to give voice to those voters who never get a chance to let their opinions be heard outside of the voting booth and then only every four years.

You may know that Craig Edwards and myself have started a podcast in April of this year that is on the CommittedtoRomney site. We have covered a wide range of subjects and the reception we have received has been very encouraging, but recently we found that we needed to find a different approach, something that would allow us to appeal to a wider spectrum of potential interviewees.

Several weeks ago Craig approached the two economists that he did the recent podcast interviews with and when he identified himself as a contributor to CTR, he was turned down for the interview.

Since the subject matter has by necessity widened way beyond promoting Gov. Romney for President, we thought we would create much more flexibility by creating a site that was a generic conservative blog and not specifically pro Romney.

Subsequent events have proven that to be the case. Some of the people that declined Craig’s first invitations to be interviewed on a Romney site have now said that they would be open to an interview with SOLIDPRINCIPLES.COM

When we find a news item that is centered on Gov. Romney, we will do the pod cast here at COMMITTEDTOROMNEY.COM and we will continue the Romney centered blog commentary here as well.

As you know, the Romney blogosphere is thriving as are Mitt’s Presidential prospects. NYforMitt is growing in the perception as one of the top Romney blogs, Bill Kuchman’s “Tick, Tick, Tick Mitt” YouTube video is one of the best in your face productions that I have seen, Planet Romney is loaded with new blog articles and even the MSM is acknowledging that Romney is the top GOP Presidential contender for 2012.

So, everyone fasten you seatbelts, it’s gonna be a wild ride from now to 2010 and 2012.

~~John Cronin~~

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Lately, the Committed to Romney Podcast have been widening the scope of subject matter to Secessionist Movements, Notre Dame & Chrysler Dealership closures. You might be wondering what this has to do with Romney?

To address this aspect, the Committed to Romney Podcast will now center around Romney. In the meantime, John Cronin & myself (Craig Edwards) announce the creation of a new Podcast, Website and a new voice in the Citizen’s Media ‘Solid Principles‘.

The debut episode of ‘Solid Prinicples’ has now been posted/uploaded and features.
John Cronin’s concise roundup of President Obama’s Cairo University speech as well as speaking to Tom Blumer & Thomas Naylor about The Obama Administration meddling with Big Business.

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Reverend Wright continues to use racial sensitivity in a recent editorial piece on the state of his relationship with President Obama. Asked on whether Wright has spoken to Obama, the Reverend stated that
Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …

Although reported on, and commented on before, the point can’t be made more often, or more strongly that the people with whom Barack Obama has associated himself with has shown a repeated pattern that would only coincide with a person who himself believes that America is the worst country on Earth that is deemed unable to be the most powerful country on Earth.

We mustn’t forgot who President Obama mingles with, yet we must be fair, and allow our President to try to show his honest belief of us, the US. It seems so far that Obama’s view is a traditional, liberal view that blames the USA for every single act that occurs worldwide, but let us have patience, and witness the actions of our President for the better.

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Jon Voight, rightly pronounced as a “silver-screen conservative” correctly animates his, and the sentiments of many, by commenting on how

the people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The ‘change’ they envisioned is not the ‘change’ they have gotten.

Scores of people throughout America who believed candidate Obama would bring about this drastic change that would completely overhaul the American government are only now realizing the consequences of electing a man with socialistic tendencies. Those voters believed they were getting change for the better, but are now joining the ranks of those who all along opposed the policies of Obama, and proclaimed the change Obama would bring would be change for the worst.

Voight goes on to explain how the Obama administration is keenly attuned to the needs of the people. That they

know what people want and they give it in a package that can be read off a teleprompter. That’s not what our country is based upon,

President Obama places hope in the minds of many people by saying exactly what the people want to hear. By extracting himself out of the problem at hand, promising a change that will make everybody secure in the future [sometime], and making sure he places enough blame on the past in order to counteract any (probable) error that would occur under his watch.

As with many conservatives, Voight greatly admires our forefathers who under all the odds against them, were able to lead this country’s people towards a birth of democracy. Voight advises his fellow Americans to

read up on the lives of the nation’s founders, and understand that the founding of the nation was “an amazing moment in time

Jon Voight understands how great this country is, the greatness of its founding, and the greatness of its people. Statements such as these by Voight, by other conservatives and freedom loving people will hopefully become a crescendo that will echo loud, and clear that we Americans stand for a Republican form of government. It is only by your words, and votes that we may turn the tide and show the world what we really stand for.

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An e-mail was sent on behalf of Mitt’s Free and Strong America PAC by Tagg Romney, his oldest son. Here is the e-mail in it’s entirety:

Steve,

First off, I want to thank you for staying involved with the Free and Strong America PAC. Your support has enabled my dad to continue being a strong voice for conservatism – traveling and speaking out on our shared ideals and supporting Republican candidates throughout the country.

This movement isn’t about my dad or any one candidate that we’re supporting, however. It’s about you. And we want to hear what these ideals mean to you. That’s why today I’m announcing a mini-essay contest.

The best submission will receive an all-expense paid trip for 2 to join me in the Romney family seats at Fenway Park for a Red Sox game. And four runner-ups will receive a baseball personally autographed by my dad.

How do you qualify? Simply (1) visit www.FreeStrongAmerica.com/essay for complete details and to see a special video message from my dad, (2) contribute at least $50 to my dad’s PAC, and (3) email your 250-words-or-less answer to the question “What does a free and strong America mean to you?” to Essay@FreeStrongAmerica.com. The five best submissions will be featured on FreeStrongAmerica.com, and the author of the best answer, as decided by us, will win the baseball trip.

The contest ends June 24th, so get writing. It’s only 250 words. That’s fewer words than are contained in this email. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Tagg

Following up, is the link to the contest website at https://www.freestrongamerica.com/essay

If you would to participate in this worthwhile experience, the entry process is as follows.

1. Watch a video message of Governor Romney on the web-page cited above explaining the task at hand
2. Make a new donation of at least $50.00 to the PAC as your admission fee.
3. Answer the question “What does a Free and Strong America mean to you?” in 250 words or less and email your essay to Essay@freestrongamerica.com
4. Essays and contributions must be received by June 24, 2009 in order to be considered

If you are the author of the winning essay, you will:

1. Receive an all-expense paid trip for 2 to join Tagg Romney in the Romney family seats at Fenway Park for a Red Sox game on July 8th, 2009.
2. Have his or her essay featured on FreeStrongAmerica.com

The 4 runner-ups, will:

1. Will receive a baseball autographed by Mitt Romney.
2. Have his or her essay featured on FreeStrongAmerica.com

In addition, all of us are wise to read the fine print, located in the Extended Rules link.

Essays must be the original work of the entrant. Paper should be no more than 250 words and submitted to Essay@freestrongamerica.com along with a minimum donation of $50 to the Free and Strong America PAC. Once the corresponding donation is confirmed, a member of the PAC staff will read and judge the entry. Contestants may enter as many times as they like, as long as each entry corresponds to a separate donation of at least $50. If an entrant has previously donated to the PAC, he or she must make a new donation in order to be considered. Contest runs from June 10th 2009 – June 24th 2009. No entries will be accepted after the contest has ended. No person currently employed or related to an employee of the PAC may enter. Winners will be announced on FreeStrongAmerica.com on June 29th, 2009. A member of the PAC will contact the winner on June 29th before the announcement is made. Winner is entitled to transportation to Fenway Park in Boston, 2 tickets to the July 8th home game and 1 hotel room in Boston, MA. The top 5 essays will be posted on the PAC website. By submitting your essay, you give the PAC permission to use your entry in any way.

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Google being one of them, I decided to go check out their page to see if they had their GOOGLE logo decorated to honor D-Day. Turns out, they don’t. But what they did decide to honor was the video game, Tetris.

It really is disappointing when people forget what happened, especially an event that is so important worldwide. Brings to mind a very popular quote by George Santayana:

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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Currently at odds with the words to type in this post, I am obliged to say I would not know. I would not know what term would be used to classify the remarks made by Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States of America, that are contained in her senior thesis at Princeton University.

Michelle uses words that are strong not only in connotation, but feeling. Should Michelle be deemed a ‘racist’ or any other word of that nature? I’m not sure; neither would I be just if I could locate the right diction, and classify her as that, since it would be an opinion, and not an actual fact, thing I know.

Whatever the circumstance with Michelle, her perspective on Caucasians leads people of all ethnic groups to take offense at her comments. For instance, Michelle states that her

experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. “I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.

In addition, Michelle writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her

further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.

Let us remember a quote Frank Outlaw was quoted as saying:

Watch your thoughts: They become your words.
Watch your words: They become your actions.
Watch your actions: They become your habits.
Watch your habits: They become your character.
Watch your character: It becomes your destiny.

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Is Obama Driving the White House Automotive Task Force?

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Chrysler: We talk to Nicholas Parks from Rogers Dodge of Alvin TX, one of the dealers affected by the closure recently announced by Chrysler.

North Korea: We speak to an American in Japan about the North Korean crisis and how it affects the region.

Bushbama: Has Obama adopted more of the Bush Doctrine since taking office? We speak to Committed to Romney contributer John Cronin about the all things Bushbama.

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With the Obama Administration issuing a plethora of statements about their achievements during the first 100 days, verifying each one would invariably be a task to be had. Since Obama took office, the MSM have been so eager to print the propaganda that very little fact checking or journalistic scrutiny is involved. Slowly but surely, White House Corespondents are starting to re-emerging from their slumber and now conduct a daily sporting match of making Robert Gibbs squirm.

When the White House issued ‘100 Days, 100 Projects’, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper did some old fashioned ‘Gumshoe’ work. He looked into the statement that $27 million of the Recovery Act funding was used on a public housing development in D.C., the Regency House to be ‘Greened Out’. He discovered that only $59,000 of the Recovery Act has been spent on only 2 items leaving 5 outstanding. 

TAPPER: All right. Just to follow up, I looked at your “100 Days, 100 Projects” booklet yesterday, and the very first one says, quote, “Using $27 million of Recovery Act funding a public housing development in D.C., the Regency House, has undergone a green retrofit. As part of this upgrade, the building installed solar panels, green roof, rainwater collection system, energy-efficient lighting, as well as water-conserving toilets, showerheads and faucets.” But when I called the D.C. Housing Authority, they said only $59,000 was spent of stimulus money, not $27 million, and of these seven things mentioned, only two of the seven were actually done –

GIBBS: I think the mistake — mistake in that one, as you blogged about earlier, took a series of different projects in a cut- and-paste into one.

TAPPER: OK. So it wasn’t as clear and — it wasn’t as accurate as it could have been?

GIBBS: I — I think that’s accurate to say, yes.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

Once again, Robert Gibbs was left to provide the sort of answers, Molotov would’ve been proud.

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Romney made an appearance Thursday May 21, 2009 on the Hugh Hewitt Show about the two foreign policy speeches given by former Vice President Dick Cheney & President Barack Obama.
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Alan Keyes Left and Obama Right (no pun intended)

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Committed to Romney contributor John Cronin visits Notre Dame to cover the controversy surrounding honorary degree recipient President Obama & his commencement address.
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Recently, Karl Rove penned ‘Flip-Flops and Governance’ for the Wall Street Journal about Obama.  In it he points out the remarkable continuation of Bush policies now adapted by the Obama Administration.   It all sounded uncannily like The Who song ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ especially the lyric “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss”.   Staying and Remaining in Iraq & Afghanistan, establishing Gitmo Military Tribunals and Suppressing the release of detainee photos. 

 
If Romney wins the 2012 GOP nomination to challenge Obama, it’s looking more likely that Romney wont be the one singled out as a ‘Flip Flopper’ by the Press this time round.  President Obama’s campaign slogan of ‘Change’ has now been replaced by the rhetoric of ‘Same’. 

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I was on the campus all weekend and I stayed at a motel that was several miles north of where this film was shot, so even though I was only a mile away from where these protesters were lining Michigan Ave., I had no idea this had gone on until tonite, Tuesday, May 19.

Not only was the pro life presence bigger on campus than most Americans realize, it was much, much bigger than I realize and I was there!!

Take a few minutes to view this YouTube video so that you can see for yourself that Obama and his pro abortion crowd haven’t scared everybody off.

~~John Cronin~~

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REV. WRIGHT:  The Man Once Credited for Obama becoming Christian

According to the 1995 book ‘Dreams from My Father’  written by Barack Obama, he described the first time he heard Rev. Wright give a sermon, and told how the sermon, combined with his uplifting experience of the rich humanity of the people in the congregation, so moved him that he became a Christian believer and joined Wright’s church.

Yesterday at Obama’s Notre Dame Commencement address, he made the following statement.

“You see, I was not raised in a particularly religious household, but my mother instilled in me a sense of service and empathy that eventually led me to become a community organizer after I graduated college.  And a group of Catholic churches in Chicago helped fund an organization known as the Developing Communities Project, and we worked to lift up South Side neighborhoods that had been devastated when the local steel plant closed.

And it was quite an eclectic crew, Catholic and Protestant churches, Jewish and African American organizers, working-class black, white, and Hispanic residents all of us with different experiences, all of us with different beliefs. But all of us learned to work side by side because all of us saw in these neighborhoods other human beings who needed our help to find jobs and improve schools. We were bound together in the service of others.

And something else happened during the time I spent in these neighborhoods perhaps because the church folks I worked with were so welcoming and understanding; perhaps because they invited me to their services and sang with me from their hymnals; perhaps because I was really broke and they fed me. Perhaps because I witnessed all of the good works their faith inspired them to perform, I found myself  drawn not just to the work with the church; I was drawn to be in the church. It was through this service that I was brought to Christ“.

Is Obama changing his own history?  If so, why is it not being pointed out along the lines of Pelosi.

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We will be putting together a brand new podcast with some amazing sound bytes from the protest at Notre Dame this weekend and I believe we will be able to offer some insights into what really happened at the campus, not the scrubbed and edited version that the MSM wants you to see.

I have been out of the loop since this past Thursday night, so I don’t know much about what the coverage has looked like from CNN, MSNBC, ABC and the others, but I can tell you this: I know from first hand experience what it looked and sounded like at the intersection of Angela Blvd. and Notre Dame Ave.

I was able to conduct a half dozens or so interviews and the people had some very thoughtful comments. While the vast majority of the people there were typical middle class Americans, the protest did attract some characters who made for good theater. You will be able to get a much better feel for that on the podcast than I can provide here, so be sure to check out the upcoming segment, it should really be good.

I heard some great speeches while I was there. Dr. Alan Keys was one on the speakers and he had the crowd giving him a couple of standing ovations. Operation Rescue’s Randall Terry gave a fine speech as well.

Then there was the Catholic Church’s version of a rock star, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. He spoke with insight and conviction at the Grotto during the alternative commencement. There were so many people there, the exercise had to be relayed on closed circuit TV back to the South Quad, where a football sized field of Catholics had assembled for the Pro Life Mass.

Right after the Mass was over, Air Force One flew right over the South Quad at a altitude of maybe 300 ft. If President Obama was looking out a window for those 10 seconds, he got a real good indication from the size of that crowd how popular his policies are amongst pro life Catholics.

In closing this very brief recap, just let me make this point: We are winning this debate. There are more people who feel the same way we do about respecting human life at all it’s stages than agree that their should be unfettered abortion on demand. The MSM is attempting to keep you in the dark about the size of these gatherings. The Pro Life Mass was so big it took ten priests to distribute the Holy Eucharist. People were on their knees praying for the conversion of the pro abortion activists, cheering for the ads that were put on the projection screen, praying the rosary in front of the Main Gate, with bagpipers playing in the background and police helicopters overhead.

I can’t begin to do justice to all the sights and sounds of the weekend. I hope we can give you a better feel for it on the podcast. I encourage everybody to go to one of these events if one is scheduled anywhere near your town. If it is even half as rewarding as the experience I had at Notre Dame, it will be well worth the time you invest to attend.

~~John Cronin~~

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“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

So this is kind of out of the middle of no where, but I have been thinking about Mitt Romney and his drug policy vs. Barak Obama and his policy. That led me to the following ideas. What do you think?

  (This is a photoshop, just incase you are stupid).

Barack Obama was melodramatic about his drug use.

Reasons to agree:

1. Obama said, “I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.” People do things for a lot of reasons. To say that he used drugs for one reason, because he was having problems with his racial identity, seems to be playing the melodramatic race card. I’m not saying that it might have been part of the reason that he used drugs, but to fully blame all his drug use with racial identity problems, like he did in his book, seems a little melodramatic.
2. Melodrama involves an oversimplified hero. Obama seems to see himself as a hero, in a very simplistic way. He wrote two or three autobiographies about himself, before he was even un unaccomplished senator. Now that he is president, he can write a few autobiogaphies, but he has already written two or three.
3. Obama goes on and on about how honest he was about drug use. He even went on and on about how he “wasn’t the first president to use drugs, but the first one to be honest about it”. However, if Obama is so honest about his short comings, why did he keep his smoking habit such a secret. And how can the press go on and on about how honest he is and they are, when they never published, and I mean not a single news outlet, published a photo of him with a smoke?
4. When Obama said, “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack though” (Dreams from My Father) perhaps he thought he would reach those who had used drugs and convence them to go straight. However he will have reached more straight kids and convinced them to use drugs, by making it sound cool, showing that he was able to beat it, and using their street names, as though he is still trying to have “street cred”.What do you think? Was Obama too self centered with his drug use story? Will heavy drug use go up? Perhaps it will go down. Obama can be a good or bad role model to people in a powerful way. Boys without fathers. Obama was able to beat it… or maybe he never got in far enough.

How about this. Obama ties his drug use with his search for his identity. Bush’s mother started the just say no movement. Republicans are about abstinence. Democrats don’t like the goody-goody, never used drugs image. Steve Jobs said, “I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” So according to Steve Jobs, Bill Gates wouldn’t be so “narrow” if he had “dropped acid”. Was Barack Obama trying to tell people he wasn’t “narrow” when he told the world all about his drug use, but he hides, and the media helps him hide his continued cigarette addiction? Did Obama think it was sexy of him to have used drugs in the past, but he is embarrassed of his continued cigarette addiction? If not, why did he tell the world about the former, and no one knows about the latter?

Some of this may be old news, but I hope I am covering new territory.

Perhaps the important question is what party are we? Obviously, we are Bill Gates. We are not the party tries to glorify dropping acid. And it all goes back to these old battles from the 60s, that just won’t go away. Forget Romney’s Mormonism. It had nothing to do with his church… if Mitt Romney had used drugs in his youth, like Glen Beck, no one would have cared about his Mormonism. Perhaps Romney reminded people of things they don’t want to admit were mistakes. Saying you don’t like people like Romney is an important part of convincing yourself that people like him are narrow.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you do gain some great insight from dropping acid. Maybe Obama doesn’t think he is really a cool guy because he used to use drugs. Maybe there is a logical explanation why he was “honest” about using drugs in the past, but doesn’t admit his un-politically fashionable current cigarette use.

Of course the “I used to do drugs” thing glamorizes it, but the “I don’t use drugs, made something out of myself, and became president” thing also de-glamorizes it. But that is not my point. I don’t care about the glamorizing drugs thing. I don’t even care about the hypocrisy of Obama saying how honest he was, when it serves his purposes of appealing to people who love to pat themselves on their back by saying how “nuanced” they are. What I really care about is what the whole thing says about Obama, and about the democratic and republican parties.

How many democrats are democrats, even though they want smaller government, but because they think it is cooler to be in a party that embraces nuance, or to put it another way, they are embarrassed of the goody-goody-religious right image of the republican party.

Everyone I know who grew up republican, and religious, when they started experimenting with drugs or Alcohol, they stopped calling themselves religious, and republican.

When Obama was looking for a political party, was their anyone that he could identify with?

Do we want to be the party of Youth? Do we want to be the cool party? What image do we have? I don’t want the Bill Gates Microsoft image, and I don’t want the Steve Jobs Apple image. What about the Mitt Romney image? I think Mitt Romney would make a hell of a president, and do the right things, and make things run more efficient, but what image would he present for our party? Is Mitt Romney cool?

Mitt Romney’s dad was cool. Mitt Romney’s dad was a man’s man, told it like it was, was entertaining, and fun to listen to.

I think if we are going to win in 2012, we have to win the debate, and show how self serving and shallow the democrats are in their immature attempt to be cool.

That shouldn’t be too hard.

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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

– G.K. Chesterton

On one hand, our beloved Governor states our country’s success:

To this task… accepting this burden… we are all dedicated, and I firmly believe, by the providence of the Almighty, that we will succeed beyond our fondest hope. America must remain, as it has always been, the hope of the earth.

- CPAC 2008

On the other hand, there’s five fingers. Haha, okay. On the other, you have President Obama at the Summit of the Americas where [he]

acquiesced to a 50-minute attack on America as terroristic, expansionist, and interventionist from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. His response to Ortega’s denunciation of our effort to free Cuba from Castro’s dictatorship was that he shouldn’t be blamed “for things that happened when I was three months old.” Blamed? Hundreds of men, including Americans, bravely fought and died for Cuba’s freedom, heeding the call from newly elected president John F. Kennedy. But last week, even as American soldiers sacrificed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq to defend liberty, President Obama shrank from defending liberty here in the Americas.

-A Timid Advocate of Freedom - by: Mitt Romney

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You may have noticed that Romney took down all HIS videos from Youtube (you can still find videos of him that other people posted, but he no longer has an account, and so his videos went away). So, if you have put his videos on your website, all those links are broken, and all your post will be frustrating to those who go to your websites.

I think this was a very bad decision. 

One video that I felt very bad about loosing was the Jan Mickelson interview.

I still have the complete transcript here:

http://myclob.pbworks.com/Jan-Mickelson

Because of comments left on my post, someone showed me where the complete interview is on Google Videos. Thanks. I’m glad you helped me find it. This video has a low google rank, and I couldn’t find it. I think it might help if we all link to it. Also I updated my video page, which has a whole bunch of Romney videos with un-broken links. 

http://myclob.pbworks.com/video

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Storm center over Pelosi
By Mike Soraghan and Jared Allen
Posted: 05/14/09 08:28 PM [ET]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged on Thursday that she knew in 2003 that terrorism suspects were waterboarded.

During a tense press conference, Pelosi sought to deflect criticism to the CIA, which she said lied to her about the practice.

Pelosi said she learned of the waterboarding after her national security aide, Mike Sheehy, sat in on a February 2003 briefing with her successor on the committee, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). Sheehy has since left Pelosi’s office.

Pelosi defended herself for not speaking out at the time about information disclosed in a classified briefing. Asked why she did not co-sign a formal objection by Harman after Sheehy was told of the waterboarding, Pelosi said any objection by Harman or herself would have done little good.

“No letter could change the policy,” she said. “It was clear we had to change the leadership in Congress and in the White House. That was my job, the Congress part.”

The controversy over what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has erupted into one of the toughest fights of her speakership. Republicans have criticized Pelosi for tacitly agreeing to practices she considers torture in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, and then going after the Bush administration now that political winds have shifted.

THE HILL

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By GLEN JOHNSON – 1 day ago

BOSTON (AP) — The head of the Republican Party said Tuesday he regrets the public interpretation of comments in which he said the GOP voted against Mitt Romney last year in part because he was a Mormon. “Chairman Steele regrets the way his comments have been interpreted,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a statement.

“Chairman Steele believes Mitt Romney is a respected and influential voice in the Republican Party and looks to his leadership and ideas to help move our party and our nation in the right direction.”

Gitcho is a former Romney campaign staffer.

A Romney aide did little to veil his displeasure with Steele.

“Sometimes when you shoot from the hip, you miss the mark. This is one of those times,” said spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.

Steele, already under fire for a series of miscues during his first 100 days as Republican leader, offered an unvarnished critique of Romney’s faults Friday as he guest-hosted conservative Bill Bennett’s national radio program.

AP/GOOGLE

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By: David Brody

Because of President Obama’s appearance and speech at Notre Dame this Sunday, some seniors will not attend their own graduation ceremony and instead join a University prayer service on the grounds at Notre Dame. No indication yet as to how many seniors will forgo the graduation ceremony.

The student group behind this effort, ND Response, has made this wild hollywood style video showcasing their displeasure with Notre Dame and the President. I must say the production value is extremely high and I feel like I’m watching a trailer for some sort of hollywood blockbuster movie.

Read below as to what will be taking place this Sunday at Notre Dame:

The meditation, which will be led by Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, is part of a two-day rally that has been officially sanctioned by the university.

The evening of May 16, bishop of the Fort Wayne- South Bend diocese, Rev. John D’Arcy, will lead a candlelight prayer vigil for graduating seniors and their families to pray for an end to abortion and embryo research.

On May 17, Commencement Day, in addition to the meditation ceremony, a large rally will be held on the South Quad of the university, the campus’ main quad, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Speakers at the rally will include Elizabeth Naquin Border, Notre Dame graduate and former chairman of the board for the Women’s Care Centers in South Bend; Rev. Joseph Raphael, Notre Dame graduate and principal of St. Augustine’s High School in New Orleans; William Solomon, director of the university’s Center for Ethics and Culture; and Chris Godfrey, a Notre Dame law school graduate and former offensive guard for the Super Bowl XXI champion New York Giants.

You know, the Obama faith team worked really hard during the campaign to court Catholic voters and it paid off because Obama won the Catholic vote. It made a difference in swing states like Pennsylvania and others. All along the Obama team knew they had a challenge on the abortion issue but was able to break through because of how candidate Obama lined up with Catholics on other issues like torture, healthcare, climate change, human rights, etc.

Since becoming President, Mr. Obama has made policy that has left himself open to criticism by pro-life Catholics (conscience clause, mexico city, embryonic stem cell research). When the President faces re-election in 2012, the faith team will have an even tougher challenge because with evidence in hand, pro-life Catholics will now mount a full scale offensive against the President.

Moderate Catholic groups are armed for battle too. Will this be a Catholic armageddon of sorts?

By the way, just because some students at Notre Dame take issue with what will happen Sunday, let me provide a little balance here. 23 student groups support the move by Notre Dame and did you know that the Notre Dame valedictorian is an Obama supporter?

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Congratulations to all the hardworking people at NDResponse.com, ProjectSycamore.com and NotreDameScandal.com and to Father Pavone who helped to provide an alternative to the students at Notre Dame who will be a wonderful example to the undergraduates at ND as well as pro life people around the country.

Stay clicked to www.committedtoromney.com because it is our hope to report on the massive protest at Notre Dame this weekend by devoting an entire podcast segment here at CTR.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248677/posts

Life News
By: Steven Ertelt

South Bend, IN (LifeNews.com) — Notre Dame students who don’t want to attend a graduation ceremony involving pro-abortion President Barack Obama put together alternate plans. Today, they announced that Father Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life, will lead prayer at a pro-life prayer vigil.
The Class of 2009 Vigil for Life will be celebrated at Sunday’s commencement ceremony at the same time as the graduation event.
“In standing with these students, I am standing with the true spirit of Notre Dame: a pro-life spirit, in harmony with human reason and Catholic Faith,” Father Pavone told LifeNews.com on Monday.
“The scandal that has been generated does not represent what Notre Dame is all about,” Pavone added. “It represents a radical betrayal of what Notre Dame is all about.”
Pavone said the scandal has resulted in pro-life Catholics standing up for the teachings of the Catholic Church and wanting to hold the university accountable to them.
“Hundreds of thousands of Catholics, hundreds of priests, and dozens of bishops have called upon Notre Dame to end this scandal by withdrawing its invitation to President Obama,” he said. “The result of that demand is not in our control.”
Pavone told LifeNews.com he thinks pro-life students should exercise their right not to attend the graduation ceremony, where President Obama will give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree.
“One final response to this scandal is fully in the control of each graduating senior: don’t show up. Don’t participate in an event which will only serve to obscure rather than highlight the Church’s pro-life teaching and the true spirit of Notre Dame,” Pavone continued.
“The seniors who do this are manifesting the real meaning of commencement: they are carrying out the witness to truth and service that their hard-earned degrees have prepared them to give in the world,” he added.
Some pro-life students plan to join Pavone for the alternative event, but others plan to conduct their own protest during the graduation ceremonies, ND Response, the pro-life collection of student groups, told LifeNews.com last week.
“It certainly appears obvious from these announced plans that a large or perhaps the sole focus of that response is a boycott,” ND Response indicated. “There also may be other small groups or individuals amongst the 2009 graduates and their guests who have their own ideas about raising the pro-life issue to Mr. Obama inside the Joyce Center.”
The students say they want a focus on peaceful and respectful opposition, especially in light of some of the more in-your-face opposition appearing at their campus in recent days along with the arrest of some pro-life advocates.

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(EDITORS NOTE: I respectfully disagree with this editorial about Michael Steele and his remarks in regards to Mitt Romney. -ANN MARIE CURLING - Founder comMITTed to Romney)

We must not take Michael Steele out of context. That is what killed Mitt Romney. If we want Romney to have a chance in 2012, we have to change the way we debate issues as a party. We can’t turn the word “nuanced” into a bad word, and we must never take people out of context. If we removed Steele for what he said, we would be serving the emotional shouters of the party… we are not the party of emotion… we are not the overly-idealistic, naive, party of people who get riled up by something that someone says out of context. We are the party of ideas. It doesn’t matter what it sounds like Steele said, it only matters what he really said.

Jay Cost thinks that it is tie for Michael Steele to go, over what he said about Romney. Jay Cost is wrong.

Michael Steele was saying what a lot of people believe. We need to win the argument, with reason, not by kicking those people out of power that don’t see things “the true way”. We need Michael Steele out there saying what people believe, and having the conversation. It was fine for Romney to disagree with Steele, but Romney did not “slap” him. Romney disagreed with Steele. You can disagree with someone without “slapping” them. Lets all just calm down, Ace… no one has to walk the plank.

The caller was saying Romney could have won against Obama. Who cares? Maybe Romney would have won, maybe he wouldn’t. Who cares? Michael Steele was pointing out that Romney did not win. I think Michael Steele tried brainstorming some of the reasons Romney did not win. Romney is a shrewd businessman. Business people who do not learn from their mistakes do not have the kind of careers that Romney had. I’m sure Romney sat down and made a list of all the things that he did right, and all the things that did wrong.

“Chairman Steele regrets the way his comments have been interpreted,” RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said. “Chairman Steele believes Mitt Romney is a respected and influential voice in the Republican Party and looks to his leadership and ideas to help move our party and our nation in the right direction.” 

Yes democrats could do what John Stewart does every night, and take something that Steele said out of context. But there probably things that Romney said that they could more easily take out of context.

You could take what Steele said out of context, and say that Mormons do not have the right to be republicans.  But that is not what he said. Steele said, “It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism.” He never said that he had issues with Mormonism, or that it was right that the base did. He listed it as one of other reasons, and he is right that it was a factor. It doesn’t matter if what Steele said “sounds wrong” because he is right. It was a factor.

Steele didn’t say it was good that the party reject people like Romney, Reagan, and George HW Bush, who were once pro-choice. If Michael Steele would have been smarter, he could have pointed out that Reagan was once pro-choice. But Steele was on the program for an hour or two…

He also could have been more nuanced (a word that Hotair is trying to turn into a bad word… not a good move for the republican party) in his explanation of Mitt Romney’s pro-life position. Romney said he was always pro-life, but believed in the rule of law and promised he would not change the law in Massachusetts. When the democrat called him a liar, and said that he was pro-life, would always be pro-life, Romney had to convince them that he would not change the law. He would not make the laws more pro-life, or pro-choice. Romney kept that promise, but people took what he said out of context. It didn’t matter than any person with 1/2 a brain knew that Romney was always pro-life, that he just promised not to change the laws, all that mattered was they have videos that could have been taken out of context. Well it is the same with Michael Steele. But we have to reform as a party. We can’t keep Steel out of the party leadership because he can be taken out of context, and hope to get Romney into leadership, another person who was totally taken out of context.

PS If Romney is unable to address these issues in the next 3-1/2 years, or with the book he is working on, than nothing that Michael Steele says matters.

Romney’s dad lost his presidency because something that he said was taken out of context. It would be sad of Steele lost his spot, while talking about Romney, because of something Steele said out of context.

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I can’t help but wonder what the President is going to speak about. Family values? Respect for life? I guess those two subjects are off the table.

One thing seems certain. There will be a huge pro life presence on campus the weekend of May 16-17. A presence that shows that a majority of Americans still believe in the sanctity of life and they will hold these values long after President Obama has left the national stage.

~~John Cronin~~

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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez asserted greater control over the country’s energy industry on Friday by seizing the assets of some foreign and domestic oil contractors while his government grapples with a sharp decline in oil revenue and mounting debts.

The move points to a greater concentration of power by Mr. Chávez, who is busily exerting sway over important industries and political institutions during the economic crisis. In recent weeks, his government has also hounded top rivals, stripping the mayor of Caracas of financing for the city budget while forcing the mayor of Maracaibo to seek asylum in Peru after he was confronted with corruption charges.

The move by Mr. Chávez on Friday also raises concern about Venezuela’s ability to increase its declining oil production at a time of low oil prices. The national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, hired the contractors to help it produce oil by operating drilling rigs, using technology to extract oil from aging wells or moving personnel or equipment on boats.

Venezuela, which relies on oil for about 93 percent of its export earnings, has not paid some of the oil contactors since late last year, according to filings by companies like Williams Companies, based in Tulsa, Okla., which said last month that it did not expect to receive $241 million it was owed here. Petróleos de Venezuela had been seeking a reduction of about 40 percent in its overall debt to the companies, which is estimated by industry analysts to be about $10 billion.

Our “people will never again be anyone’s slave,” Mr. Chávez said Friday.

NEW YORK TIMES

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