Here is the latest Flip-Flopping of Obama’s Ratings with charts and pictures!

49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove. Read More about this Flip-Flopping

What you say, will Obama regain his high approval rating or will he keep going down in approval ratings? In other words will he listen to We The People or keep going down the socialist path that he’s on?
 

Our way of life being attack from within our own government

LINKS:

(1) Obama summons his army: “This is the moment our movement was built for.”

President-Elect Obama, President Bush, and former presidents Clinton, HW Bush, and Carter meet at the White House today for lunch.

Now how much would I have LOVED to have been there!

Via Alex:

Via ThinkProgress, here’s VP Cheney in the Washington Times:

“In my mind, the foremost obligation we had from a moral or an ethical standpoint was to the oath of office we took when we were sworn in, on January 20 of 2001, to protect and defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. And that’s what we’ve done,” he said…
“I think it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation against further attacks like what happened on 9/11,” Mr. Cheney said.

 
Notice anything weird about what he said? I did.

What did Alex notice?:

That’s the oath of enlistment into the US military. It is not the oath that Cheney took when he became Vice President.

The President and Vice President swear to protect and defend the constitution, and not the people of the United States. That’s not a minor or insignificant difference. 

What did I notice?

If Cheney and Bush really believe that they swore an oath to defend and protect the nation on January 20th, 2001, then they failed to uphold that oath.  Mind you, the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred later on in 2001, after Bush and Cheney had taken office.  According to Cheney’s rational, the Bush administration was pretty much a failure from the start.

That’s the amount of national debt on Election Day 2008, as compared to $7.1 trillion on Election Day 2000. 

More mathematical comparisons of Bush’s presidency to the end of Clinton’s – because we all know polisci majors love numbers!

The American people may be losing their jobs and savings, but on Friday night, on the eve of the international financial summit, they provided President Bush and other G20 leaders a lavish banquet that included $300-a-bottle wine, Vermont Brie, eggplant fondue, and rack of lamb.

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In other words, America has been cut down to size and the beneficiaries are those who were always jealous of her wealth and power. The result will not only be less U.S economic power but the diminution of American military power. One will inevitably follow the other, especially if more U.S. manufacturing industries go bankrupt.

This isn’t “international capitalism.” It’s the victory of global socialism. The stage is perfectly set for the U.S. presidency to be occupied by a revolutionary Marxist.

“We are the world” is coming true.

http://www.smallgovtimes.com/2008/11/global-socialists-toast-victory-over-america/

Changes from candidate to president-elect were evident earlier, when Obama stepped off his plane and was greeted by transition manager John Podesta, the former chief of staff to President Clinton.

Mrs. Bush was to give Mrs. Obama a tour of the first family’s living quarters, including the bedrooms used by children of past presidents. White House press secretary Dana Perino said the two women were expected to talk about living in one of the world’s most famous buildings, from family life to the help provided by executive staff.

The Obamas have two daughters: Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Obama started his day in Chicago, dropping the two girls at school, each with a kiss, and then going to a gym for a workout.  Bush, who had endorsed McCain, lauded Obama’s victory as a “triumph of the American story.” He warmly invited the Obama family to the White House.

Obama, in turn, thanked Bush for being gracious. The president-elect has made clear in public that there is only one president and for now that’s Bush. Obama takes the oath of office on Jan. 20.

Perhaps the United States of America has outlived its Capitalistic beginnings. Capitalism argumentatively didn’t start in America until after the War between the States. I subscribe to this from the stand point Slavery can’t exist in a Capitalistic Democracy. America’s Founding Fathers were surly thinking similar to a Capitalistic Democracy. Yet it was unattainable in the form it has become now, restricted by the ‘Sins of our Fathers.”

America matured, and abolished slavery as I believed it always had intended, despite those who wish to hold America hostage with its earlier inhumanities. Capitalism by its nature opens the door for Greed, Self-centredness, Selfishness, Self-decadence, however the idealism of Capitalism simply put, individualism, freedom of will, meant to close the door to the natural characteristics. Leaving Americans to make the right choices without intervention. Intervention by Government, Religion, or Monarchy.

We can debate the moral issue anytime you wish, but for now realize the end to Capitalism is on a fast train to the Socialist Zone. And Socialism is intervention into every aspect of individualism. The question now, whose intervention will be forced on us. Ben and Jerry’s Ice-Cream co-Founder commented in a 1999 New York Times editorial rebuttal, an editorial that attacked Ben & Jerry’s achievement against Capitalism. The New York Times was dead wrong, if not for Capitalism Ben & Jerry’s wouldn’t have achieved all the good they’ve done for their employees and inspired other businesses to do the same.

“To the Editor:

Your Dec. 22 news article about our announcement that potential buyers had shown interest says, ”Some also see the battle as a last stand by hippie idealism against capitalism.” This is crazy. We set out to prove that ”hippie idealism” is the best way to reinvigorate capitalism and increase profits.

We have always believed in the value of investing in all our stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the larger community. This has paid off handsomely in increased profits, market share and shareholder value.

Many top executives have come around to the need to invest in human capital. As the president of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, I work with current or past chief executives of many top companies. We are trying to increase financing for education, health care and other investments in our children, paid for through cuts in needless cold-war-era Pentagon projects.

BEN COHEN

Burlington, Vt., Dec. 22, 1999 …The writer is the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.” New York Times December 26, 1999

With the Bush Administration’s plan of investing into (9) of America’s biggest Banks, Capitalism as we’ve known it in America has began to collapse. No turning back whether we elect John McCain or Barrack Obama. However the timetable and characteristic for America’s new political posture will differ from who’s elected the next President of the United States. With the possibility of a Democratic Congress and President the future of Socialism will be closer than, a divided and balanced Washington lead by a Republican President, or an otherwise balanced Congress…

Senator Obama recently enlightened the citizens of America for better or worse depending on which side of the isle your on, when he commented he wants to “spread the wealth.” A Freudian slip, say it’s so Obama, but he can’t, because Obama’s chief supporters, and backers are of the Extreme-Out there far Left Zone. While we may believe Obama is an independent thinker, up to now that may have been true. But his success is due in large part to the deep pockets of the far Left loonies. And if you believe the polls Payback time is soon. The Left Loons are elitists with their idealism for a more Socialistic Democracy centered on their need to be the elitists.

Socialism is separation of Classes. Capitalism has its separation of Classes as well. But with Capitalism there’s the idealism that achievement and success be rewarded with a path to climb higher up the ladder. A Socialistic Democracy only offers two Classes, the Elitists, you and I. Heaven help you and I. Socialism from the Left, Right, and between, is wrong, separation of Classes is wrong, but with Capitalism comes what some would call the American Dream. Socialism offers no individualism, no dream of apiece of the pie, at least not by one’s own achievement. Rather by Group selection. If your an evolutionist then the coming Socialist Republic of America should be right up your alley.

The Russian Revolution was initially Socialism at the onset, then changed quickly into Communism. Obama’s, recent message of wanting to redistribute and spread the wealth of America, President Bush’s government investment plan into (9) of America’s major Banks, and McCain’s support, though reluctant. Spells the beginning of the end to America’s Capitalist Democracy, it’s liken to the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. Their idealism and promise of Socialism wasn’t a dream, but a nightmare for the proletariat or working class of Russia. We could discuss that America is headed in this direction, but regardless of your belief, in the end American’s lose.

Now the best American’s can do is slow the pace of Socialism with hope that a well paced transition will bring about a unique form of Socialism. Socialism is around the corner, and your vote this Presidential election can either slow its pace or speed it up. When individual freedoms like that under a Socialistic Russia then Communist, begin to erode with enlarging the federal government and intervention of the group into American individualism then I have a problem. Socialism can work in a Democracy, of sorts. But doesn’t begin to come close to the same freedoms we have now in a Capitalistic Society.

There’s so much more to say, here and now I only wish to develop some thought, yours. Let me know, am I blowing smoke or do you see as I the dangerous path American Politics is headed.

This is my opinion, and I am david 102108

So, this guy came for a visit today at Windsor Castle:

I can almost hear Prince Philip sighing heavily from across the Atlantic.  Do you think that, for the Mountbatten-Windsor clan, getting yet another visit from George is like being on a sitcom and having your annoying kid neighbor drop by to say inappropriate things and eat you out of house and home?  I’ll bet Bush is the Urkel to their Winslows, the Eddie Haskell to their Cleavers.  He’ll compliment your cooking while he pockets your silverware and hits on your horrified daughter (watch out, Anne).

Anyway, the President is in Britain today on what the White House is calling his “European Farewell Tour,” like he’s Cher or something.  He’s meeting with Gordon Brown to talk about serious political things, I’m sure, but first, he made a pit stop to see the Queen at Windsor.  He must have heard that she’s not got much going on this weekend.

Liz looks thrilled, doesn’t she?  And tired.  I’m a little concerned for her, to be honest.  She’s not a spring chicken anymore, and this has got to be a tough week for her, with Trooping on Saturday, a visit from the Americans on Sunday, Garter Day tomorrow, and Royal Ascot this week.  Someone should get the poor girl a chair.  Or let her take a nap.

Philip must be bored.  I think he’s pointing out cobwebs that the maids missed while cleaning the giant chandeliers.  But that’s a proper Queen face, isn’t it?  She must have remembered that this is one of the last times she has to host the guy who called her over 200 years old.

Hey, Laura stole the Queen’s suit from yesterday!  (Philip must have pointed out the cobwebs.)

And now we’re all concerned about the ceiling.  I think these people must have, over the past eight years, used up every possible subject they could neutrally talk about.  Now they’re reduced to staring into space.  Philip looks especially stricken.  It’s okay, Phil.  Urkel’s done for good next January — thank God for term limits.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57228

“The agreement, defined as a Civil Assistance Plan, was not submitted to Congress for approval, nor did Congress pass any law or treaty specifically authorizing this military agreement to combine the operations of the armed forces of the United States and Canada in the event of a wide range of domestic civil disturbances ranging from violent storms, to health epidemics, to civil riots or terrorist attacks.”

Not unlike “the NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive”

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55824 

a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.  
 

Courtesy of Eddie in tdaxp open thread VI this Zakaria piece. Let me highlight a few choice excerpts.

“The enemy is vast, global and relentless. Giuliani casually lumps together Iran and Al Qaeda. Mitt Romney goes further, banding together all the supposed bad guys. “This is about Shia and Sunni. This is about Hizbullah and Hamas and Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood,” he recently declared.But Iran is a Shiite power and actually helped the United States topple the Qaeda-backed Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Qaeda-affiliated radical Sunnis are currently slaughtering Shiites in Iraq, and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are responding by executing and displacing Iraq’s Sunnis. We are repeating one of the central errors of the early cold war—putting together all our potential adversaries rather than dividing them.
We are repeating one of the central errors of the early cold war—putting together all our potential adversaries rather than dividing them. Mao and Stalin were both nasty. But they were nasties who disliked one another, a fact that could be exploited to the great benefit of the free world. To miss this is not strength. It’s stupidity.”

This speaks directly to a previous post and it’s good to see a mainstream source calling into question the homogeneous quality of the term “terrorist.” The term “terrorism” would be better served to identify a tactic rather than label an element of resistance (without regard to the brutality of said resistance.) Further it illustrates the sophomoric quality of both Giuliani and Romney in terms of foreign policy, specifically in relation to the complexities of the Middle East.

“We will never be able to prevent a small group of misfits from planning some terrible act of terror. No matter how far-seeing and competent our intelligence and law-enforcement officials, people will always be able to slip through the cracks in a large, open and diverse country. The real test of American leadership is not whether we can make 100 percent sure we prevent the attack, but rather how we respond to it. Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that our goal should be resilience—how quickly can we bounce back from a disruption? In the materials sciences, he points out, resilience is the ability of a material to recover its original shape after a deformation. If one day bombs do go off, we must ensure that they cause as little disruption—economic, social, political—as possible. This would deprive the terrorist of his main objective. If we are not terrorized, then in a crucial sense we have defeated terrorism.”

While I don’t always agree with him Zakaria seems to possess an unconventional journalistic ability to entail a realistic approach to any given subject as is illustrated above and here in another article of his I referenced a few months back concerning global warming.

A related post regarding the term “terrorist” can be found here at NeoNeoCon. While I don’t disagree with the subjective journalistic approach that Neo outlines I do remain adamant in light of the simplification the term carries. In an age of youtube and mass information it is critical that our country adequately define the enemy they wish to entangle with.