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Barack Blow-back Foreseen in 2010 |
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Written by E.F. Winslow
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:32 |
Political analysts see a seismic shift in national politics underway. A shift that may supersede in 2010 what happened during the "Republican Revolution" in 1994, when the GOP retook both houses of Congress.
In 1994, the Democrats suffered huge losses in the midterm elections, largely because of of what many thought was overreaching on the part of Bill Clinton to social the nation's health care system, and the general sentiment that he had "over promised and under-delivered" on key points of his campaign platform in 1992.
Now, the same discontent and dissatisfaction is beginning to seep into not only the broad moderate voters who helped elect Barack Obama, but even the peripheral edges of Barack Obama's base.
Some of the recent evidences from pollsters is as follows:
-Gallop recently reported that a majority (51%) of Americans currently say they consider themselves to be pro-life (up from 44% last year) and 42% say they are pro-choice (down from 50% last year). This swing represents the first time there has been a significant majority who considered themselves "Pro-life"- which is favors heavily the republican candidates.
- In a poll completed last May, Gallop also reported a spike in individuals who call themselves "Conservative". The gains in conservatives apparently was siphoned off of the population who, just last year, classified themselves as "moderate".
Moreover, Obama's administration is even conceding that the grandiose solutions that were passed to start the economic recovery were largely ineffectual, and that the Obama administration itself was wrong in their assessment and implementation of "solutions". Vice President Joseph Biden said to Time Magazine ""Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made about what the state of the economy was at the moment this was passed." The fact of the matter is that the economy has gotten worse than what the administration had projected would happen, even without the passing of the stimulus package.
President Obama's "mea culpa" tour through Europe and the Middle East has not garnered any new allies. As a matter of fact, the way Iranians view America has actually degraded significantly since Obama took office. Apparently the Rodney King school of foreign policy "Can't we all just get along" is just as effectual as always. In the most recent European elections, the Western democracies took a discernible turn towards conservatism...much to the chagrin of the liberals in this country.
Obama's Health care plan was recently panned by the American Medical Association where they repudiated it in the strongest of terms. His penchant for massive deficit spending is even scaring some of the biggest democrat spenders on Capitol Hill.
All of this may spell a complete rout of the Democrat party in the mid-term election in 2010. Barring Obama being able to get rogue nations like North Korea or Iran to suddenly become freedom-loving democracies, or him personally discovering a cure for cancer (both events about as likely), there will be a rude awakening for the Democrats in a little over a year.
Then, there will be change- just not quite what Pres. Obama had in mind. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:39 |
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Anthropologists Discover a Broken Link |
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Written by E.F. Winslow
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:37 |
Anthropologists Discover a Broken Link
Tuesday, with great fanfare a fossil was unveiled at a news conference at the American Museum of Natural History that was quickly dubbed the "missing link" of human evolution. The primary scientist behinds the discovery is Dr. Jorn Hurum of the University of Oslo, who nicknamed it "Ida," after his own six-year-old daughter.
Roughly about the size of a racoon, the purportedly 47 million year old fossil is a nearly 95% complete, and has almost all the characteristics of a modern day lemur. It is only slightly different in that it doesn't have fused teeth, rather teeth more like that of a monkey, and doesn't have a "grooming claw".
The hype has been so great on the discovery that even google for the day has replaced its normal logo with a modified logo featuring the fossil, and name the image "missinglink.gif"
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Perhaps the most perplexing question that many inquisitive people might raise is "just how does this fossil fit in as the missing link in human evolution?". The common understanding of the quest for the so-called "missing link" is the gap in the fossil record which would demonstrate some transitional species between human and lower primates. Despite the fact that many in the press and scientific community have used the phrase "missing link" for Ida, the fact is that no one is trying to seriously make the case that this is the "missing link" in the traditional understanding of the word.
To make this even farther removed from the idea of being the "missing link" between humans and other primates, the scientists behind the discovery, in a more subdued tone, have even noted that Ida may not have anything to do with the human evolutionary chain at all, never mind fitting in between apes and humans. They said in a paper on the subject that "“[The species] could represent a stem group from which later anthropoid primates evolved [the line leading to humans], but we are not advocating this here.”
Looking at the fossil, it looks like a lemur, is the size of a lemur, and probably acted like a lemur. This might lead uneducated people to believe that..it IS a lemur.
How, one might ask, did it make the headlines on CNN, top of the Drudge Report, and the front page of the New York Times? Pretty simple. It was a calculating publicity campaign that is running in advance of a book (entitled "The Link), and series of promotional "documentaries".
It is a sad observation of our culture to note that the public is being deliberately misled about the significance of a scientific discovery for no other reason than the promotion of a book. However, that is clearly the case, and the media is a willing party, banking on the sensationalism earning pageviews for websites, and Nielsen ratings for television shows.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:39 |
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Romney's Health Plan is Odious to Everyone |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Friday, 06 October 2006 19:29 |
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Amid balloons, confetti and much fanfare 18 months ago, Mitt Romney launched his "universal" health care plan which he and his handlers hoped would become a model for other states, and eventually, the nation. It was supposed to be the best of every world- providing low cost coverage for everyone, while allowing the free market to create the necessary insurance to competitively meet the need, without undue government interference. Instead, it created a bureaucracy that failed to deliver the promised goods. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 29 May 2009 17:22 |
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Obama Reverses Himself On Prison Photos |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:46 |
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President Barack Obama, contradicting his earlier promise to release hundreds of photos, is now seeking to block the release of those photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The pictures allegedly show mistreatment of detainees at US run prisons in Iraq. He articulated his new position after military commanders warned that the images could stoke anti-American sentiment and endanger U.S. troops.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the president was concerned that the photos' release would pose a national security threat, an argument the administration has not made yet in the courts. "The president does not believe that the strongest case regarding the release of these photos was presented to the court and that was a case based on his concern about what the release would do to our national security," Gibbs said. Gibbs said that the main argument previously was a privacy one. He emphasized that the president continues to believe that the actions depicted in the photos should not be excused and fully supports the investigations, prison sentences, discharges and other punitive measures that have resulted from them. The ACLU responded with searing abuse for the Presidents latest decision.
"The decision to not release the photographs makes a mockery of President Obama's promise of transparency and accountability," said ACLU attorney Amrit Singh, who argued and won the case in front of the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in New York. "It is essential that these photographs be released so that the public can examine for itself the full scale and scope of prisoner abuse A military group said it was relieved Obama would fight the photos' release, adding that soldiers' lives could otherwise be put at risk. Brian Wise, executive Director of Military Families United, said the pictures "will only serve as propaganda to our enemies who will use the images as a recruitment tool to enlist terrorists." "The president has said that he wants to improve the image of America throughout the world," Wise said in a statement. "This is not the way to accomplish that. These photos represent isolated incidents where the offending servicemen and women have already been prosecuted. There is no good that can come from releasing these photos." that was conducted in its name."
Both Democrats and Republicans find it somewhat disturbing that the President of the United States can make a policy decision, and in just a matter of days, take legal action to support a position completely opposite his publicly stated position just a few days earlier.
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